Life in the Age of Drone Warfare

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

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