Drones and the Annihilation-Image in Contemporary Warfare (eBook)

The Case of 'Eye in the Sky' in the Washington-Hollywood Entanglement

Gabriel F.Caetano (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
XII, 291 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-3-031-70435-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This book analyses the entanglement between Washington and Hollywood to shed light on the violence inherent in the image as a semiotic-material agent in contemporary warfare. In the 21st century, the weaponized military drone, an image-centered machine, has spearheaded the geopolitical curatorship of the USA in the context of the war on terror. Drone violence shares the same characteristics as cinema: image and movement. However, a drone's image is not purely a reflection of the nature of war; it is more than representational, it is performative. Building upon the concept of annihilation-image, this book argues that the image wields a destructive agency as it transitions from reflection to diffraction. Rather than mirroring reality, the annihilation-image creates a brutal pattern of difference in the world. It is a destructive ontology in which seeing and annihilating are in a state of superposition. Therefore, everything that is framed is potentially dead. That is to say, by framing bodies and objects in the terrain, a state of superpositional violence is created in which one is alive, but virtually dead.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.10.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Global Political Sociology
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 291 p. 37 illus., 27 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Annihilation-image • Cinema • drones • Eye in the Sky • Technology • war
• ISBN-10: 3-031-70435-5 / 3031704355
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-70435-2 / 9783031704352