Unmanning - How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare

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 is an assistant professor in the Culture and Politics Program at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. She received her PhD in rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Chandler
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781978809741
• ISBN: 978-1-978809-74-1
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: War Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Militärtechnik, Militärgeschichte, Technology & Industrial Arts, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Weapons, COMPUTERS / Cybernetics