{"product_id":"drone-imaginaries-the-power-of-remote-vision-9781526145932","title":"Drone Imaginaries: The Power of Remote Vision","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere should no longer be any doubt: drones are here to stay. In civil society, they are used for rescue, surveillance, transport and leisure. And on the battlefield, their promises of remote protection and surgical precision have radically changed the way wars are fought. But what impact are drones having on our identity, and how are they affecting the communities around us?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book addresses these questions by investigating the representation of civilian and military drones in visual arts, literature, and architecture. What emerges, the contributors argue, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors offer diverse approaches to this interdisciplinary field of aesthetic drone imaginaries. With essays on the aesthetic configurations of drone swarming, historical perspectives 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, \u003ci\u003eDrone imaginaries\u003c\/i\u003e offers a unique insight into how drones are changing our societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Andreas Immanuel Graae and Kathrin Maurer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Visions\u003cbr\u003e1 Flattened vision: Nineteenth-century hot air balloons as early drones – Kathrin Maurer\u003cbr\u003e2 Signature strikes, drone art, and world-making – Thomas Stubblefield\u003cbr\u003e3 The drone of data – Jan Mieszkowski\u003cbr\u003e4 Empathy and the image under surveillance capitalism: Interview with photographer Tomas van Houtryve – Tomas van Houtryve and Svea Braeunert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Bodies\u003cbr\u003e5 Disappearing, appearing, and reappearing: Imaging the human Body in Drone Warfare – Svea Braeunert\u003cbr\u003e6 The gender politics of the drone – Lauren Wilcox\u003cbr\u003e7 Borders and migration as seen from above – Rasmus Degnbol and Andreas Immanuel Graae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Communities\u003cbr\u003e8 Swarm of steel: Insects, drones and swarming in Ernst Jünger’s \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Bees\u003c\/i\u003e – Andreas Immanuel Graae\u003cbr\u003e9 Artificial intelligence and the socio-technical imaginary: On Skynet, self-healing swarms and Slaughterbots – Jutta Weber\u003cbr\u003e10 Stranger things: A techno-bestiary of drones in art and war – Claudette Lauzon\u003cbr\u003e11 Eyes in the skies: \u003ci\u003eRepellent Fence\u003c\/i\u003e and trans-indigenous time-space at the US-Mexico border – Caren Kaplan\u003cbr\u003eCoda: The life, death, and rebirth of drone art – Arthur Holland Michel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041009926487,"sku":"9781526145932","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526145932.jpg?v=1750948584","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/drone-imaginaries-the-power-of-remote-vision-9781526145932","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}