Drone Cultures From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art

The drone is an object of contradiction. On the one hand, it is a tool of dominance, destruction and death while on the other, as this book shows, it is a tool for education, creativity and entertainment. Encouraging us to think more critically about the figure of the drone, we begin by tracing the rise of drone warfare in the twenty-first century during the Bush administration, before touching on topics such as issues of surveillance culture and political oppression, biopolitics, AI, the role of the digital humanities in examining drones, and literary and artistic representations of (and using) drone technology. Demonstrating why we should stop thinking of drones as agents of chaos and death, we are asked to consider how they are fundamentally transforming our ideas of art, privacy, space, time, dignity, transparency, accountability, and democracy.

Info autore

John Muthyala is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Southern Maine, USA.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Muthyala John, John Muthyala
• Con la collaborazione di: Anthony Mandal (Editore), Jenny Kidd (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2026
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9781350530454
• ISBN: 978-1-350-53045-4
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.4 x 23.2 x 2 cm
• Serie: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
• Categorie: Freedom, Power, Popular Culture, Ethics, Biopolitics, Democracy, War, AI, Michel Foucault, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Digital Humanities, Giorgio Agamben, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Literary studies: from c 2000, Digital Culture, Postcolonial Literature, Drone Warfare, surveillance; war; drone warfare; democracy; power; digital humanities; digital culture; biopolitics; Michel Foucault; New Aeesthetic; freedom; ethics; postcolonial literature; Giorgio Agamben; AI; Namwali Serpell; Mahwish Chishty; James Bridle, James Bridle, Namwali Serpell, Mahwish Chishty, New Aeesthetic