INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I. JURIDICAL, GENEALOGICAL, AND GEOPOLITICAL IMAGINARIES
6. 1. DIRTY DANCING. Drones and Death in the Borderlands 25
7. 2. LAWFARE AND ARMED CONFLICTS. A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and U.S. Targeted Killing Policies and Legal Challenges against Them 59
8. 3. AMERICAN KAMIKAZE. Television-Guided Assault Drones in World War II 89
9. 4. (IM)MATERIAL TERROR. Incitement to Violence Discourse as Racializing Technology in the War on Terror 112
10. 5. VERTICAL MEDIATION AND THE U.S. DRONE WAR IN THE HORN OF AFRICA 134
11. PART II. PERCEPTION AND PERSPECTIVE
12. 6. DRONE-O- RAMA. Troubling the Temporal and Spatial Logics of Distance Warfare 161
13. 7. DRONOLOGIES. Or Twice-Told Tales 178
14. 8. IN PURSUIT OF OTHER NETWORKS. Drone Art and Accelerationist Aesthetics 195
15. 9. THE CONTAINMENT ZONE 220
16. 10. STONERS, STONES, AND DRONES. Transnational South Asian Visuality from Above and Below 241
17. PART III. BIOPOLITICS, AUTOMATION, AND ROBOTICS
18. 11. TAKING PEOPLE OUT. Drones, Media/Weapons, and the Coming Humanectomy 261
19. 12. THE LABOR OF SURVEILLANCE AND BUREAUCRATIZED KILLING. New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators 282
20. 13. LETTER FROM A SENSOR OPERATOR 315
21. 14. MATERIALITIES OF THE ROBOTIC 324
22. 15. DRONE IMAGINARIES. The Technopolitics of Visuality in Postcolony and Empire 343
23. Bibliography 367
24. Contributors 411
25. Index 415