Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Sensuous Affiliations Security, Terror, and the Queer Calculus of the Forever War 1
5. One. Up in the Air US Aerial Power and the Visual Life of Empire in the Drone Age 44
6. Two. On the Skin Drone Warfare, Collateral Damage, and the Human Terrain 76
7. Three. Empire’s Innards Conjuring “Warm Data” in Archives of US Global Military Detention 103
8. Four. Palestine(s) in the Sky Visionary Aesthetics and Queer Cosmic Utopias from the Frontiers of US Empire 151
9. Epilogue. Scaling Empire Insurgent Aesthetics in the Wilds of Imperial Decline 187
10. Notes 203
11. Bibliography 271
12. Index 321