Overview

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 perspective 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.

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Author:   Andreas Immanuel Graae ,  Kathrin Maurer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
ISBN:  

9781526178985

ISBN 10:   1526178982
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Andreas Immanuel Graae and Kathrin Maurer Part I: Visions 1 Flattened vision: Nineteenth-century hot air balloons as early drones – Kathrin Maurer 2 Signature strikes, drone art, and world-making – Thomas Stubblefield 3 The drone of data – Jan Mieszkowski 4 Empathy and the image under surveillance capitalism: Interview with photographer Tomas van Houtryve – Tomas van Houtryve and Svea Braeunert Part II: Bodies 5 Disappearing, appearing, and reappearing: Imaging the human Body in Drone Warfare – Svea Braeunert 6 The gender politics of the drone – Lauren Wilcox 7 Borders and migration as seen from above – Rasmus Degnbol and Andreas Immanuel Graae Part III: Communities 8 Swarm of steel: Insects, drones and swarming in Ernst Jünger’s The Glass Bees – Andreas Immanuel Graae 9 Artificial intelligence and the socio-technical imaginary: On Skynet, self-healing swarms and Slaughterbots – Jutta Weber 10 Stranger things: A techno-bestiary of drones in art and war – Claudette Lauzon 11 Eyes in the skies: Repellent Fence and trans-indigenous time-space at the US-Mexico border – Caren Kaplan Coda: The life, death, and rebirth of drone art – Arthur Holland Michel Index -- .

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Andreas Immanuel Graae is Assistant Professor at the Royal Danish Defence College. Kathrin Maurer is Professor of Humanities and Technology at the University of Southern Denmark.

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