Gabriel F. Caetano: Drones and the Annihilation-Image in Contemporary Warfare, Gebunden
Drones and the Annihilation-Image in Contemporary Warfare
Buch
- The Case of 'Eye in the Sky' in the Washington-Hollywood Entanglement
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- Verlag:
- Springer Nature Switzerland, 10/2024
- Einband:
- Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783031704345
- Artikelnummer:
- 12049742
- Umfang:
- 304 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 508 g
- Maße:
- 216 x 153 mm
- Stärke:
- 21 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 27.10.2024
- Hinweis
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Klappentext
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.
Gabriel F. Caetano
Drones and the Annihilation-Image in Contemporary Warfare
Aktueller Preis: EUR 147,93