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This volume's contributors offer a new critical language through
which to explore and assess the historical, juridical,
geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and
warfare. They show how drones generate particular ways of
visualizing the spaces and targets of war while acting as tools to
exercise state power. Essays include discussions of the legal
justifications of extrajudicial killings and how US drone strikes
in the Horn of Africa impact life on the ground, as well as a
personal narrative of a former drone operator. The contributors
also explore drone warfare in relation to sovereignty, governance,
and social difference; provide accounts of the relationships
between drone technologies and modes of perception and mediation;
and theorize drones' relation to biopolitics, robotics, automation,
and art. Interdisciplinary and timely, Life in the Age of Drone
Warfare extends the critical study of drones while expanding the
public discussion of one of our era's most ubiquitous instruments
of war. Contributors. Peter Asaro, Brandon Wayne Bryant, Katherine
Chandler, Jordan Crandall, Ricardo Dominguez, Derek Gregory,
Inderpal Grewal, Lisa Hajjar, Caren Kaplan, Andrea Miller, Anjali
Nath, Jeremy Packer, Lisa Parks, Joshua Reeves, Thomas
Stubblefield, Madiha Tahir
Throughout the West, theory - in particular feminist theory - tends
either to ignore difference altogether or to lapse into a kind of
cultural relativism. Resisting these two moves, the authors here
explore the possibilities of achieving feminist work across
cultural divides. In doing so, they bring the issues of colonialism
and post-colonialism into the typically aesthetic debates over
postmodernism and the construction of culture; at the same time,
they broaden these debates to include the normally excluded issue
of feminist participation. Asking how ideas of postmodernism and
post-colonialism are variously deployed by feminists and others in
different locations allows the authors to trace the flow of
information and theory in transnational cultural production. To
this end, they pursue two lines of questioning: What kinds of
feminist practices engender theories that resist of the question of
modernism? And how do we understand the production and reception of
diverse forms of feminism within a framework of transnational
social/cultural/economic movements?
From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the
eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed
by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the
transformation of how people perceived their world, better
understood their past, and imagined their future. In Aerial
Aftermaths Caren Kaplan traces this cultural history, showing how
aerial views operate as a form of world-making tied to the times
and places of war. Kaplan's investigation of the aerial arts of
war-painting, photography, and digital imaging-range from England's
surveys of Scotland following the defeat of the 1746 Jacobite
rebellion and early twentieth-century photographic mapping of Iraq
to images taken in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Throughout,
Kaplan foregrounds aerial imagery's importance to modern visual
culture and its ability to enforce colonial power, demonstrating
both the destructive force and the potential for political
connection that come with viewing from above.
This volume's contributors offer a new critical language through
which to explore and assess the historical, juridical,
geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and
warfare. They show how drones generate particular ways of
visualizing the spaces and targets of war while acting as tools to
exercise state power. Essays include discussions of the legal
justifications of extrajudicial killings and how US drone strikes
in the Horn of Africa impact life on the ground, as well as a
personal narrative of a former drone operator. The contributors
also explore drone warfare in relation to sovereignty, governance,
and social difference; provide accounts of the relationships
between drone technologies and modes of perception and mediation;
and theorize drones' relation to biopolitics, robotics, automation,
and art. Interdisciplinary and timely, Life in the Age of Drone
Warfare extends the critical study of drones while expanding the
public discussion of one of our era's most ubiquitous instruments
of war. Contributors. Peter Asaro, Brandon Wayne Bryant, Katherine
Chandler, Jordan Crandall, Ricardo Dominguez, Derek Gregory,
Inderpal Grewal, Lisa Hajjar, Caren Kaplan, Andrea Miller, Anjali
Nath, Jeremy Packer, Lisa Parks, Joshua Reeves, Thomas
Stubblefield, Madiha Tahir
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Late Imperial Culture (Paperback, New)
E.Ann Kaplan, Michael Sprinker, Roman de la Campa; Contributions by Aijaz Ahmad, Caren Kaplan, …
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Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to
postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps
crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices
including theater, film, photography, fiction, autobiography, and
body art. The forms reviewed in this lively collection range from
those which accept and reproduce empire's dominant self-images to
scathing critiques of the oppressions that colonialism has visited
upon its subjects and the price it continues to exact from them. A
diverse range of theoretically sophisticated and historically
informed contributors take as given two fundamental facts about the
culture of imperialism: firstly, that it has a long and complex
history which, in the present epoch, merits its being designated
"late"; and, secondly, that its impact on the contemporary world is
far from exhausted. Together they highlight the contradictions in
the serried cultural practices of imperialism in its different
historical periods. Contributors: Aijaz Ahmad, Steven Cagan, Roman
de la Campa, David Glover, May Joseph, Caren Kaplan, Rob Nixon,
Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, and Marianna Torgovnick.
Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of
travel-displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism,
homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel,
Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and
displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political
implications of this "traveling theory," and shows how various
discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism
and postmodernism. Addressing a wide range of writers, including
Paul Fussell, Edward Said, James Clifford, Gilles Deleuze, Jean
Baudrillard, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Soja, Doreen Massey, Chandra
Mohanty, and Adrienne Rich, Kaplan demonstrates that symbols and
metaphors of travel are used in ways that obscure key differences
of power between nationalities, classes, races, and genders.
Neither rejecting nor dismissing the powerful testimony of
individual experiences of modern exile or displacement, Kaplan asks
how mystified metaphors of travel might be avoided. With a focus on
theory's colonial discourses, she reveals how these metaphors
continue to operate in the seemingly liberatory critical zones of
poststructuralism and feminist theory. The book concludes with a
critique of the politics of location as a form of essentialist
identity politics and calls for new feminist geographies of place
and displacement.
From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the
eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed
by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the
transformation of how people perceived their world, better
understood their past, and imagined their future. In Aerial
Aftermaths Caren Kaplan traces this cultural history, showing how
aerial views operate as a form of world-making tied to the times
and places of war. Kaplan's investigation of the aerial arts of
war-painting, photography, and digital imaging-range from England's
surveys of Scotland following the defeat of the 1746 Jacobite
rebellion and early twentieth-century photographic mapping of Iraq
to images taken in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Throughout,
Kaplan foregrounds aerial imagery's importance to modern visual
culture and its ability to enforce colonial power, demonstrating
both the destructive force and the potential for political
connection that come with viewing from above.
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