Droned Lives, from Gaza to the World
Gaza has been an open-air prison camp since at least 2005, but it is current drone use that makes it an example par excellence of how life can be managed by air occupation.
Remote Warfare: A Debate Worth the Buzz?
Despite its definitional and conceptual ambiguities, remote warfare scholarship has invited creative thinking on many different issues connected to conflict.
Kill Empowerment: The Proliferation of Remotely Piloted Vehicles
The US and Israel dominated the initial wave of drone proliferation, yet others have since joined in supplying weaker states with the lethal instruments in what constitutes a second wave.
The Remote Warfare Paradox: Democracies, Risk Aversion and Military Engagement
Western democracies’ claims to the moral high ground in respect to the brutality of war are uncalled for. There is no such thing as sophisticated violence.
Remote Warfare and the Utility of Military and Security Contractors
There are important ethical, political and legal concerns with military contracting. The most serious of these is the fear that it will lead to a democratic deficit.
The “Drone” Lexicon
The term, “drone,” is often unhelpful and is useful only to the degree that those who use it clarify the sub-categories within it that are actually at stake.
Dangerous Gaming: Cyber-Attacks, Air-Strikes and Twitter
By using gamified logics, the Israel Defense Forces in a tweet positioned air-strikes on a plane similar to cyber-attacks, transforming Hamas into inhuman targets.
Interview – Ruth Blakeley
Ruth Blakeley explains her research exposing the UK’s involvement in the torture of terror suspects, and discusses drones, human rights research and international law.
Visualising the Drone: War Art as Embodied Resistance
War art belongs to an aesthetics that is derived from practical and real-world encounters, and which sets to apprehend the world via sense-based and affective processes.
Technological Terror, Killer Robots, and Black Mirror’s ‘Metalhead’
A world that emphasizes the role of efficiency-driven technological solutions could produce a universe in which humanity is terrorized by its own technological offspring.
