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dc.contributor.editorPong, Beryl
dc.contributor.editorRichardson, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-19T10:01:04Z
dc.date.available2024-08-19T10:01:04Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92856
dc.description.abstractThere can be little doubt of the canonical drone aesthetic: a flattened aeriality that moves with an inhuman smoothness, drifting and pitching to capture an uncanny vantage. But with the unfolding, contested landscape of drone development and proliferating drone use, how is this disruptive technology changing our understanding of war, culture, and ecology? This edited collection offers a pluralized understanding of drones by bringing together twelve essays from interdisciplinary scholars working on drone pasts and drone futures, encompassing fields such as cultural anthropology, critical war studies, disability studies, international relations, media studies, and cultural studies. It examines the intersection between drones and aesthetics in terms of visual culture and the arts; the body and its relationship to the material environment; the mechanic capacities for sensing and sense-making; and in terms of politics and what makes politics possible. To more fully account for the unique politics of drone perception, it also features three visual essays by multimedia artists whose aesthetic practices have shaped the field of drone scholarship. Offering new ideas and arguments about the technology, logics, and systems with which drones are intertwined, this collection scrutinises how the aesthetics of drones are fundamental to its ethics; how drone aesthetics are impacting the way we relate to one another and to the human and more-than-human worlds; and how drones are altering our relationships to life and death.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTechnographiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TR Transport technology and trades::TRP Aerospace and aviation technologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defenceen_US
dc.subject.otherdrone; aesthetic; war; politics; culture; ecologyen_US
dc.titleDrone Aestheticsen_US
dc.title.alternativeWar, Culture, Ecologyen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedByf4b2eb29-a039-427a-9368-b62dcacdb4bden_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781785421037en_US
oapen.pages276en_US
oapen.place.publicationLondonen_US


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