Drone Theory by Grégoire Chamayou review – a provocative investigation Turning an eye into a weapon – drone attacks have become a hallmark of Barack Obama’s presidency, and the talk of ‘precision’ is deeply problematic In May 2009, a former adviser to General David Petraeus named David Kilcullen wrote an op-ed in the New York Times calling for a moratorium on drone strikes carried out by the United States against al-Qaida and its associates in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. The military advantages of using drones (the US Army defines a drone as a “land, sea or air vehicle that is remotely or automatically controlled”) are outweighed, Kilcullen argued, by their costs. As the French thinker Grégoire Chamayou observes in his subtle and provocative “philosophical investigation” of drone warfare, Kilcullen’s article offered an insight into the “internal debates within the US military apparatus” over the transformation of a surveillance technology into a vehicle for administering lethal force. (Predator drones, which had been used extensively for surveillance purposes during the Nato intervention in Kosovo in 1999, were first equipped with Hellfire missiles in tests carried out in February 2001, turning, as Chamayou puts it, “an eye into a weapon”.) Continue reading... ift.tt/1E1lIJC #love #read #text #bookworm #books #words #climax #readinglist #paper #library #author #imagine #pages #instagood #story #plot #quotes #art #poet #literate #book #nook #inspire #prose #poetry #inspiration #ink
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