Book contents
- War and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- War and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: War, Literature, and the History of Knowledge
- Part I Origins and Theories
- Part II Foundational Concepts
- Part III Emerging Concepts
- Chapter 16 War and Drones
- Chapter 17 War and Humanitarianism
- Chapter 18 War and Capitalism
- Chapter 19 War and Revolution
- Chapter 20 War and Biopolitics
- Chapter 21 War and Nuclear Criticism
- Chapter 22 War and the Personality of Power
- Index
Chapter 16 - War and Drones
from Part III - Emerging Concepts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2023
- War and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- War and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: War, Literature, and the History of Knowledge
- Part I Origins and Theories
- Part II Foundational Concepts
- Part III Emerging Concepts
- Chapter 16 War and Drones
- Chapter 17 War and Humanitarianism
- Chapter 18 War and Capitalism
- Chapter 19 War and Revolution
- Chapter 20 War and Biopolitics
- Chapter 21 War and Nuclear Criticism
- Chapter 22 War and the Personality of Power
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores literary and cinematic works that capture the emergence of technogenic life-forms in war zones through the artificial vision of the drone: that terror-inducing aerial surveillance apparatus and killing machine that is planetary in its reach and catastrophic in its impact. By technogenic life-forms, I mean machinic abstractions of the organic human form that are available for manipulation, expulsion, and annihilation. These life-forms are the product of a scalar transformation of ordinary human vision through the composite digital infrastructure of the drone. The aesthetic repertoire of the chapter ranges from novels such as Richard Clark’s The Sting of the Drone (2014) and Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019), films such as Madiha Tahir’s Wounds of Waziristan (2013) and Atef Abu Saif’s war diary The Drone Eats with Me (2016).
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- War and Literary Studies , pp. 261 - 277Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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