Drone Cultures

From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art

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Drone Cultures

From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art

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Description

The drone is an object of contradiction. On the one hand, it is a tool of dominance, destruction and death while on the other, as this book shows, it is a tool for education, creativity and entertainment.

Encouraging us to think more critically about the figure of the drone, we begin by tracing the rise of drone warfare in the twenty-first century during the Bush administration, before touching on topics such as issues of surveillance culture and political oppression, biopolitics, AI, the role of the digital humanities in examining drones, and literary and artistic representations of (and using) drone technology.

Demonstrating why we should stop thinking of drones as agents of chaos and death, we are asked to consider how they are fundamentally transforming our ideas of art, privacy, space, time, dignity, transparency, accountability, and democracy.

Table of Contents

Preface

1: Rise of the Drone: Mobile Eye of Power
2: The Global Anarchy of the Surveillant Assemblage
3: Biopolitics, Necropolitics, and Ethics in a Drone World
4: Drone, Baby, Drone: Techno-neocolonialism and Postcolonial Mediations
5: The New Aesthetic: Post-Digitality, Eversion, and Drone Cultures
6: Drone Dispositions in Art and Culture

Epilogue

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 19 Feb 2026
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781350530454
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 11 bw illus
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Series Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

John Muthyala

John Muthyala is a Professor in the Department of…

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