Parks / Kaplan Life in the Age of Drone Warfare

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7281-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

This interdisciplinary volume explores the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare, showing how drones generate ways of understanding the world, shape the ways lives are lived and ended on the ground, and operate within numerous mechanisms of militarized state power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parks, Lisa

Kaplan, Caren

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan 1
Part I. Juridical, Genealogical, and Geopolitical Imaginaries 23
1. Dirty Dancing: Drones and Death in the Borderlands / Derek Gregory 25
2. Lawfare and Armed Conflicts: A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and U.S. Targeted Killing Policies / Lisa Hajjar 59
3. American Kamikaze Television-Guided Assault Drones in World War II / Katherine Chandler 89
4. (Im)Material Terror: Incitement of Violence Discourse as Racializing Technology in the War on Terror / Andrea Miller 112
5. Vertical Mediation and the U.S. Drone War in the Horn of Africa / Lisa Parks 134
Part II. Perception and Perspective 159
6. Drone-o-Rama: Troubling the Temporal and Spatial Logics of Distance Warfare / Caren Kaplan 161
7. Dronologies: Or Twice-Told-Tales / Ricardo Dominguez 178
8. In Pursuit of Other Networks: Drone Art and Accelerationist Aesthetics / Thomas Stubblefield 195
9. The Containment Zone / Madiha Tahir 220
10. Stoners, Stones, and Drones: Transnational South Asian Visuality from Above and Below / Anjali Nath 241
Part III. Biopolitics, Automation, and Robotics 259
11. Taking People Out: Drones, Media/Weapons, and the Coming Humanectomy / Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves 261
12. The Labor of Surveillance and Bureaucratized Killing: New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators / Peter Asaro 282
13. Letter from a Sensor Operator / Brandon Bryant 315
14. Materialities of the Robotic / Jordan Crandall 324
15. Drone Imaginaries: The Technopolitics of Visuality in Postcolony and Empire / Inderpal Grewal 343
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Parks is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author and coeditor of several books, most recently, Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures.

Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and the author and coeditor of several books, including Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above, also published by Duke University Press.