Drones and the Annihilation-Image in Contemporary Warfare
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Drones and the Annihilation-Image in Contemporary Warfare

The Case of 'Eye in the Sky' in the Washington-Hollywood Entanglement

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Drones and the Annihilation-Image in Contemporary Warfare

The Case of 'Eye in the Sky' in the Washington-Hollywood Entanglement

About this book

This book analyses the entanglement between Washington and Hollywood to shed light on the violence inherent in the image as a semiotic-material agent in contemporary warfare. In the 21st century, the weaponized military drone, an image-centered machine, has spearheaded the geopolitical curatorship of the USA in the context of the war on terror. Drone violence shares the same characteristics as cinema: image and movement. However, a drone's image is not purely a reflection of the nature of war; it is more than representational, it is performative. Building upon the concept of annihilation-image, this book argues that the image wields a destructive agency as it transitions from reflection to diffraction. Rather than mirroring reality, the annihilation-image creates a brutal pattern of difference in the world. It is a destructive ontology in which seeing and annihilating are in a state of superposition. Therefore, everything that is framed is potentially dead. That is to say, by framing bodies and objects in the terrain, a state of superpositional violence is created in which one is alive, but virtually dead.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1.Ā Introduction: How do Images Participate in the Annihilation of Humans?
  4. 2.Ā Thinking and Writing (Politics) Cinematically: The Cinematic Mode of Political Theorizing
  5. 3.Ā Aesthetics and International Relations: An Overview of Sensible Politics
  6. 4.Ā Drones: A Visual, Vertical, and Virtual Genealogy
  7. 5.Ā Washington and Hollywood: An Entanglement
  8. 6.Ā Becoming-Drone: From Military Scopophilia to Annihilation-image
  9. 7.Ā Drones in the Age of Excessive Autonomy: Concluding Remarks
  10. Back Matter