This interdisciplinary volume explores the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare, showing how drones generate ways of understanding the world, shape the ways lives are lived and ended on the ground, and operate within numerous mechanisms of militarized state power.

Acknowledgments  vii Introduction / Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan  1 Part I. Juridical, Genealogical, and Geopolitical Imaginaries  23 1. Dirty Dancing: Drones and Death in the Borderlands / Derek Gregory  25 2. Lawfare and Armed Conflicts: A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and U.S. Targeted Killing Policies / Lisa Hajjar  59 3. American Kamikaze Television-Guided Assault Drones in World War II / Katherine Chandler  89 4. (Im)Material Terror: Incitement of Violence Discourse as Racializing Technology in the War on Terror / Andrea Miller  112 5. Vertical Mediation and the U.S. Drone War in the Horn of Africa / Lisa Parks  134 Part II. Perception and Perspective  159 6. Drone-o-Rama: Troubling the Temporal and Spatial Logics of Distance Warfare / Caren Kaplan  161 7. Dronologies: Or Twice-Told-Tales / Ricardo Dominguez  178 8. In Pursuit of Other Networks: Drone Art and Accelerationist Aesthetics / Thomas Stubblefield  195 9. The Containment Zone / Madiha Tahir  220 10. Stoners, Stones, and Drones: Transnational South Asian Visuality from Above and Below / Anjali Nath  241 Part III. Biopolitics, Automation, and Robotics  259 11. Taking People Out: Drones, Media/Weapons, and the Coming Humanectomy / Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves  261 12. The Labor of Surveillance and Bureaucratized Killing: New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators / Peter Asaro  282 13. Letter from a Sensor Operator / Brandon Bryant  315 14. Materialities of the Robotic / Jordan Crandall  324 15. Drone Imaginaries: The Technopolitics of Visuality in Postcolony and Empire / Inderpal Grewal  343 Bibliography Contributors Index

"This truly interdisciplinary work will challenge conventional understandings of a quickly emerging academic area. Those seeking a purely empirical analysis of how drone technology has changed the landscape might be left seeking slightly more, but they will be exposed to a series of well-constructed, timely arguments throughout this volume. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."

“As the presence of the drone in public imaginaries expands, its military/imperial paternities are overshadowed while the modes of violence that drone operations enable are progressively normalized. This thoughtfully curated collection definitively interrupts those trajectories. Putting the drone in its geopolitical place, it traces drone genealogies through histories of surveillance and killing from above, to the colonial presents in which we are all implicated, and that we need now more than ever to stand against.”