Life in the Age of Drone Warfare

by Lisa Parks (Editor), Caren Kaplan (Editor)

This volume's contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare. They show how drones generate particular ways of visualizing the spaces and targets of war while acting as tools to exercise state power. Essays include discussions of the legal justifications of extrajudicial killings and how US drone strikes in the Horn of Africa impact life on the ground, as well as a personal narrative of a former drone operator. The contributors also explore drone warfare in relation to sovereignty, governance, and social difference; provide accounts of the relationships between drone technologies and modes of perception and mediation; and theorize drones’ relation to biopolitics, robotics, automation, and art. Interdisciplinary and timely, Life in the Age of Drone Warfare extends the critical study of drones while expanding the public discussion of one of our era's most ubiquitous instruments of war.

Contributors. Peter Asaro, Brandon Wayne Bryant, Katherine Chandler, Jordan Crandall, Ricardo Dominguez, Derek Gregory, Inderpal Grewal, Lisa Hajjar, Caren Kaplan, Andrea Miller, Anjali Nath, Jeremy Packer, Lisa Parks, Joshua Reeves, Thomas Stubblefield, Madiha Tahir

448 pages, Hardcover

Published October 27, 2017

Reviews

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

When it comes to the fear mongers I guess "age" means a period of time longer than two hours and less than one year.

Anyway, now that humans are not deployed in any conflict zone and Baghdad is guarded with flying bots, we really have a "drone warfare". Sarcasm away, these intellectual frauds are describing a bad Hollywood movie and that is all they could grasp from their comfy tax sponsored sinecures.

[Mills College Library]

358.414 L7224 2017