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Remote warfare, new cultures of violence, Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, editors
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  • Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. Remote Warfare broadens the conversation, interrogating the cultural and political dimensions of distant warfare and examining how various stakeholders have responded to the reality of state-sponsored remote violence. The essays here represent a panoply of viewpoints, revealing overlooked histories of remoteness, novel methodologies, and new intellectual challenges. From the story arc of Homeland to redefining the idea of a "warrior," these thirteen pieces consider the new nature of surveillance, similarities between killing with drones and gaming, literature written by veterans, and much more. Timely and provocative, Remote Warfare makes significant and lasting contributions to our understanding of drones and the cultural forces that shape and sustain them.--Provided by publisher
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  • Introduction: Rethinking Killing at a Distance -- Part 1. Visions. 1. ⁰́₋An Entirely New Method of Conducting War at a Distance⁰́₊ : The First World War and the Air War of the Future -- 2. Warrior Woundings, Warrior Culture : An Ethos for Post-9/11 American War Culture -- 3. From Hermeneutics to Archives : Parasites and Predators in Homeland -- 4. Eye in the Sky : Persistent Surveillance Technology and the Age of Global War -- Part 2. Intimacies. 5. Of Games and Drones: Mediating Traumatic Affect in the Age of Remote Warfare -- 6. Over There? War Writing, Lethal Technology, and Democracy in America -- 7. ⁰́₋Wanted Dead or Alive⁰́₊ : The Hunt for Osama bin Laden -- 8. Home, Away, Home : Remoteness and Intimacy in Contemporary Danish Veteran Literature -- Part 3. Reconfigurations. 9. Necrospace, Media, and Remote War : Ethnographic Notes from Lebanon and Pakistan, 2006-2008 -- 10. Drones versus Drones : Ambient and Ambivalent Sounds against Remote Warfare -- 11. Bombs and Black Humor : Aerial Warfare and the Absurd -- 12. An Architecture against Dacoits : On Drones, Mosquitoes, and the Smart City
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  • eng
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  • non fiction
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  • Source of cataloging data: WCP
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  • viii, 337 pages, illustrations ; 22 cm
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  • 9781517907488
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