Drone imaginaries

Andreas Immanuel Graae is Assistant Professor at the Royal Danish Defence CollegeKathrin Maurer is Professor for Humanities and Technology at the University of Southern Denmark

• Introduction – Andreas Immanuel Graae and Kathrin MaurerPart I: Visions1 Flattened vision: Nineteenth-century hot air balloons as early drones – Kathrin Maurer2 Signature strikes, drone art, and world-making – Thomas Stubblefield3 The drone of data – Jan Mieszkowski4 Empathy and the image under surveillance capitalism: Interview with photographer Tomas van Houtryve – Tomas van Houtryve and Svea BraeunertPart II: Bodies5 Disappearing, appearing, and reappearing: Imaging the human Body in Drone Warfare – Svea Braeunert6 The gender politics of the drone – Lauren Wilcox7 Borders and migration as seen from above – Rasmus Degnbol and Andreas Immanuel GraaePart III: Communities8 Swarm of steel: Insects, drones and swarming in Ernst Jünger’s The Glass Bees – Andreas Immanuel Graae9 Artificial intelligence and the socio-technical imaginary: On Skynet, self-healing swarms and Slaughterbots – Jutta Weber10 Stranger things: A techno-bestiary of drones in art and war – Claudette Lauzon11 Eyes in the skies: Repellent Fence and trans-indigenous time-space at the US-Mexico border – Caren KaplanCoda: The life, death, and rebirth of drone art – Arthur Holland MichelIndex