War and drones

Book chapter

Ganguly, Debjani. (2023). War and drones. In In Engberg-Pedersen, Anders and Ramsey, Neil (Ed.). War and literary studies pp. 261-277 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009052832.020
AuthorsGanguly, Debjani
EditorsEngberg-Pedersen, Anders and Ramsey, Neil
Abstract

This chapter explores literary and cinematic works that capture the emergence of technogenic life-forms in war zones through the artificial vision of the drone: that terror-inducing aerial surveillance apparatus and killing machine that is planetary in its reach and catastrophic in its impact. By technogenic life-forms, I mean machinic abstractions of the organic human form that are available for manipulation, expulsion, and annihilation. These life-forms are the product of a scalar transformation of ordinary human vision through the composite digital infrastructure of the drone. The aesthetic repertoire of the chapter ranges from novels such as Richard Clark’s The Sting of the Drone (2014) and Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019), films such as Madiha Tahir’s Wounds of Waziristan (2013) and Atef Abu Saif’s war diary The Drone Eats with Me (2016).

Keywordsdrones ; artificial vision; surveillance; representation; art
Page range261-277
Year2023
Book titleWar and literary studies
PublisherCambridge University Press
Place of publicationNew York, New York
ISBN9781009052832
9781316511480
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009052832.020
Publisher's version
License
All rights reserved
File Access Level
Controlled
Output statusPublished
Publication dates
Online15 Jan 2023
Online2023
Publication process dates
Deposited20 Oct 2023
Permalink -

https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8zwz3/war-and-drones

Log in to edit

Restricted files

Publisher's version

  • 48
    total views
  • 0
    total downloads
  • 2
    views this month
  • 0
    downloads this month
These values are for the period from 19th October 2020, when this repository was created.

Export as

Related outputs

Decolonizing world literature
Ganguly, Debjani. (2023). Decolonizing world literature. In In Quayson, Ato and Mukherjee, Ankhi (Ed.). Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum pp. 420 - 437 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009299985
Angloglobalism, multilingualism and world literature
Ganguly, Debjani. (2023). Angloglobalism, multilingualism and world literature. Interventions. 25(5), pp. 601-618. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2175418
The speculative mode in feminist world literature
Ganguly, Debjani. (2022). The speculative mode in feminist world literature. In In Goodman, Robin Truth (Ed.). Feminism as world literature pp. 56-70 Bloomsbury Academic.
The scale of realism in the global novel
Ganguly, Debjani. (2022). The scale of realism in the global novel. In In Roig-Sanz, Diana and Rotger, Neus (Ed.). Global literary studies pp. 137-159 De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110740301-006
Introduction
Ganguly, Debjani. (2021). Introduction. In In Ganguly, Debjani (Ed.). The Cambridge history of world literature ; volume 1 pp. 1-46 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009064446.001
Oceanic comparativism and world literature
Ganguly, Debjani. (2021). Oceanic comparativism and world literature. In In Ganguly, Debjani (Ed.). The Cambridge history of world literature ; volume 1 pp. 429-457 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009064446.024
Catastrophic mode and planetary realism
Ganguly, Debjani. (2020). Catastrophic mode and planetary realism. New Literary History. 51(2), pp. 419-453. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2020.0025
The global novel : Comparative perspectives introduction
Ganguly, Debjani. (2020). The global novel : Comparative perspectives introduction. New Literary History. 51(2), pp. 5-18. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2020.0028
Salman Rushdie and the world picture of Islam
Ganguly, Debjani. (2020). Salman Rushdie and the world picture of Islam. In In Seigneurie, Ken (Ed.). A companion to world literature pp. 1-11 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0234
This thing called the world : The contemporary novel as global form
Ganguly, Debjani. (2016). This thing called the world : The contemporary novel as global form Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822374244
The value of world making in global literary studies
Ganguly, Debjani. (2015). The value of world making in global literary studies. In In McDonald, Rónán (Ed.). The values of literary studies : Critical institutions, scholarly agendas pp. 204-219 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316440506.014
Polysystems redux : The unfinished business of world literature
Ganguly, Debjani. (2015). Polysystems redux : The unfinished business of world literature. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. 2(2), pp. 272-281. https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2015.15
The subaltern after subaltern studies : Genealogies and transformations
Ganguly, Debjani. (2015). The subaltern after subaltern studies : Genealogies and transformations. South Asia : Journal of South Asian studies. 38(1), pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2014.991123
Editorial : New topographies
Quayson, Ato, Ganguly, Debjani and ten Kortenaar, Neil. (2014). Editorial : New topographies Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2013.1
The world novel, mediated wars, and exorbitant witnessing
Ganguly, Debjani. (2014). The world novel, mediated wars, and exorbitant witnessing. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. 1(1), pp. 11-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2013.11
The language question in India and Africa : 21(a) The language question in India
Ganguly, Debjani. (2011). The language question in India and Africa : 21(a) The language question in India. In In Quayson, Ato (Ed.). The Cambridge history of postcolonial literature ; volume 2 pp. 649-702 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9781107007031.002
Deathworlds, the world novel and the human
Ganguly, Debjani. (2011). Deathworlds, the world novel and the human. Angelaki. 16(4), pp. 145-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2011.641352
Pain, personhood and the collective : Dalit life narratives
Ganguly, Debjani. (2009). Pain, personhood and the collective : Dalit life narratives. Asian Studies Review. 33(4), pp. 429-442. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357820903367109
From empire to empire? Writing the transnational Anglo-Indian self in Australia
Ganguly, Debjani. (2007). From empire to empire? Writing the transnational Anglo-Indian self in Australia. Journal of Intercultural Studies. 28(1), pp. 27-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256860601082913
Pigments of the imagination : Theorising, performing and historicising mixed race
Edwards, Penny, Ganguly, Debjani and Lo, Jacqueline. (2007). Pigments of the imagination : Theorising, performing and historicising mixed race. Journal of Intercultural Studies. 28(1), pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256860601083002
Caste, colonialism and counter-modernity : Notes on a postcolonial hermeneutics of caste
Ganguly, Debjani. (2005). Caste, colonialism and counter-modernity : Notes on a postcolonial hermeneutics of caste Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203482230