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Remote warfare : new cultures of violence /
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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2020]
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- COVER
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Rethinking Killing at a Distance
- Part I: Visions
- 1. "An Entirely New Method of Conducting War at a Distance": 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: Persistence Surveillance Technology and the Age of Global War
- Part II: 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. "Wanted Dead or Alive": The Hunt for Osama bin Laden
- 8. Home, Away, Home: Remoteness and Intimacy in Contemporary Danish Veteran Literature
- Part III: 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
- Contributors
- Index