Book ID: CBB355948229

Unmanning: How humans, machines, and media perform drone warfare (2020)

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"Unmanning" explores the largely understudied development and failure of unmanned aircraft from 1936-1992. Katherine Chandler uses a genealogical approach to explore how contradictions between human, machine, and enemy act politically in the distinct periods of World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, Israel, and the First Gulf War. The key contributions that Unmanning makes to the field of critical military studies are to problematize what drones and unmanned aircraft are through an analysis of history, to demonstrate how networked actions between human and nonhuman that comprise unmanned aircraft operate through duplicity, and to examine the failures central to the development, experimental use, and deployment of drones that are at once technological, social, and political."--

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Review Tim Schultz (July 2021) Review of "Unmanning: How humans, machines, and media perform drone warfare". Technology and Culture (pp. 927-929). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Virginia Dignum
Filippo Santoni de Sio
Berlin, Leslie
Steve Mills
Brad Bolman
Benjamin, Medea
Concepts
Drones (aircraft)
Military technology
Case studies
Aircraft; airplanes
Technology and war; technology and the military
Military ethics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Netherlands
Latin America
Europe
Israel
Institutions
Amazon (Firm)
University of California, Davis. School of Veterinary Medicine. Radiobiology Laboratory
United States Air Force (USAF)
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