Title:
A theory of the drone
Author:
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Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
New York : The New Press, [2015]
Physical Description:
292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781595589750
Abstract:
In a unique take on a subject that has grabbed headlines and is consuming billions of taxpayer dollars each year, philosopher Grégoire Chamayou applies the lens of philosophy to our understanding of how drones are changing our world. For the first time in history, a state has claimed the right to wage war across a mobile battlefield that potentially spans the globe. Remote-control flying weapons, he argues, take us well beyond even George W. Bush's justification for the war on terror.
Contents:
Techniques and tactics -- Methodologies for a hostile environment -- The genealogy of the predator -- The theoretical principles of manhunting -- Surveillance and annihilation -- Pattern-of-life analysis -- Kill box -- Counterinsurgency from the air -- Vulnerabilities -- Ethos and psyche -- Drones and kamikazes -- "That others may die" -- A crisis in military ethos -- Psychopathologies of the drone -- Killing from a distance -- Necroethics -- Combatant immunity -- A humanitarian weapon -- Precision -- The principles of the philosophy of the right to kill -- Indelicate murderers -- Warfare without combat -- License to kill -- Political bodies -- In war as in peace -- Democratic militarism -- The essence of combatants -- The fabrication of political automata -- Epilogue: on war, from a distance.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
Translated from the French.
