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Achille Mbembe
Actor Network Theory
aerial occupation
asymmetry
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Bruno Latour
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colonialism
drone warfare
Enlightenment philosophy
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Eyal Weizman
flying island of
Gulliver's Travels
Hugo Grotius
Jean Barbeyrac
John Locke
Laputa
law of the air
moral agency
neo-imperialism
occupation
permanent war
piracy
race
race and colonialism
remote occupation
Samuel Pufendorf
signature strikes
sovereignty
territorial occupation
Texts from Drone
Thomas Hobbes
vertical sovereignty
Product details
- ISBN 9780813949536
- Weight: 195g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 10 May 2023
- Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Drone warfare raises far-reaching questions about responsibility, war, and sovereignty. Who can be held accountable for drone strikes? Do drones conduct wars of national territories and sovereign boundaries? What does the occupation of a land or people look like if there are no boots on the ground? Focusing specifically on the United States' use of killer drones during the War on Terror, Drone Enlightenment argues that this kind of warfare has its intellectual, ideological, and practical roots in the way the Enlightenment imagined moral agency, occupation, race, and sovereignty. As a consequence of seeing drone warfare as a creature of the Enlightenment, and through innovative readings of Hobbes, Locke, Grotius, Pufendorf, Barbeyrac, and Swift, the book also reevaluates the Enlightenment itself.
Peter DeGabriele is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University and the author of Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political.
