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
Authors | Ganguly, Debjani |
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Editors | Engberg-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). |
Keywords | drones ; artificial vision; surveillance; representation; art |
Page range | 261-277 |
Year | 2023 |
Book title | War and literary studies |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Place of publication | New York, New York |
ISBN | 9781009052832 |
9781316511480 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009052832.020 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 15 Jan 2023 |
Online | 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 20 Oct 2023 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8zwz3/war-and-drones
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