Unmanning

Unmanning studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes flown between 1936 and 1992. Rather than treating the drone as a result of the war on terror, this book examines contemporary targeted killing through a series of failed experiments to develop unmanned flight in the twentieth century. These experiments are tied to histories of global control, cybernetics, racism and colonialism. Drone crashes and failures call attention to the significance of human action in making technopolitics that comes to be opposed to “man” and the paradoxes at their basis.

List of contents

Contents

Introduction

1          DRONE

2          American Kamikaze

3          Unmanning

4          Buffalo Hunter

5          Pioneer

Conclusion      Nobody's Perfect

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Katherine Fehr Chandler

Summary

Studies the conditions that create contemporary unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes from 1936-1992. Rather than primarily treat the drone through the War on Terror, this book instead shows how the assembled parts of drone aircraft prefigure targeted killing well before these events.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Chandler
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781978809758
• ISBN: 978-1-978809-75-8
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: War Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Non-fiction book; Militärtechnik, Militärgeschichte, Technology & Industrial Arts, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Weapons, COMPUTERS / Cybernetics