Drone imaginaries

The power of remote vision

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

This book investigates the representation of civilian and military drones in visual arts, literature, and architecture. What emerges, is a compelling new aesthetic: ‘drone imaginary’, a prism of cultural and critical knowledge, through which the complex interplay between drone technology and human communities is explored, and from which its historical, cultural and political dimensions can be assessed.The contributors offer diverse approaches to this interdisciplinary field of aesthetic drone imaginaries. With essays on the aesthetic configurations of drone swarming, historical perspectives on early unmanned aviation, as well as current debates on how drone technology alters the human body and creates new political imaginaries, this book provides new insights to the rapidly evolving field of drone studies. Working across art history, literature, photography, feminism, postcolonialism and cultural studies, it offers a unique insight into how drones are changing our societies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:390 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526178985

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Mer om författaren

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

Innehållsförteckning

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