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Predator Empire - Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance (Paperback)
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Predator Empire - Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance (Paperback)
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What does it mean for human beings to exist in an era of dronified
state violence? How can we understand the rise of robotic systems
of power and domination? Focusing on U.S. drone warfare and its
broader implications as no other book has to date, Predator Empire
argues that we are witnessing a transition from a labor-intensive
"American empire" to a machine-intensive "Predator Empire." Moving
from the Vietnam War to the War on Terror and beyond, Ian G. R.
Shaw reveals how changes in military strategy, domestic policing,
and state surveillance have come together to enclose our planet in
a robotic system of control. The rise of drones presents a series
of "existential crises," he suggests, that are reengineering not
only spaces of violence but also the character of the modern state.
Positioning drone warfare as part of a much longer project to watch
and enclose the human species, he shows that for decades-centuries
even-human existence has slowly but surely been brought within the
artificial worlds of "technological civilization." Instead of
incarcerating us in prisons or colonizing territory directly, the
Predator Empire locks us inside a worldwide system of
electromagnetic enclosure-in which democratic ideals give way to a
system of totalitarian control, a machinic "rule by Nobody." As
accessibly written as it is theoretically ambitious, Predator
Empire provides up-to-date information about U.S. drone warfare, as
well as an in-depth history of the rise of drones.
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