[spectre] Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology - new open access book

[Gary Hall]

Announcing the latest title in Open Humanities Press's Technographies
series:

/Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology/
<https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/drone-aesthetics/>,
edited by Beryl Pong and Michael Richardson.

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/drone-aesthetics/

There can be little doubt of the canonical drone aesthetic: a flattened
aeriality that moves with an inhuman smoothness, drifting and pitching
to capture an uncanny vantage. But with the unfolding, contested
landscape of drone development and proliferating drone use, how is this
disruptive technology changing our understanding of war, culture and
ecology?

This edited collection offers a pluralized understanding of drones by
bringing together twelve essays from interdisciplinary scholars working
on drone pasts and drone futures, encompassing fields such as cultural
anthropology, critical war studies, disability studies, international
relations, media studies, and cultural studies. It examines the
intersection between drones and aesthetics in terms of visual culture
and the arts; the body and its relationship to the material environment;
the mechanic capacities for sensing and sense-making; and in terms of
politics and what makes politics possible. To more fully account for the
unique politics of drone perception, it also features three visual
essays by multimedia artists whose aesthetic practices have shaped the
field of drone scholarship. Offering new ideas and arguments about the
technology, logics, and systems with which drones are intertwined, this
collection scrutinises how the aesthetics of drones are fundamental to
its ethics; how drone aesthetics are impacting the way we relate to one
another and to the human and more-than-human worlds; and how drones are
altering our relationships to life and death.

Contributors: Michele Barker, Antoine Bousquet, Kathryn
Brimblecombe-fox, Edgar Gomez Cruz, Joseph DeLappe, Jack Faber, Adam
Fish, Caren Kaplan, Amy Gaeta, Sophia Goodfriend, Mitch Goodwin, Anna
Munster, Tom Sear, J.D. Schnepf, Yanai Toister, Simon M. Taylor,
Madelene Veber.

*Editor Bios*

Beryl Pong is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Centre for the Future
of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. She holds affiliated positions
with the Faculty of English and with Trinity College at Cambridge, and
with the Department of English, Linguistics, and Theatre Studies at the
National Univrsity of Singapore. She is the author of /British
Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime: For the Duration/ (2020).

Michael Richardson is writer, researcher, and teacher living and working
on Gadigal and Bidjigal country. He is an Associate Professor in Media
and Culture at UNSW Sydney, where he co-directs the Media Futures Hub
and the Autonomous Media Lab, and an Associate Investigator with the ARC
Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making & Society. His
research and writing examines technology, power, witnessing, trauma, and
affect in contexts of war, security, and surveillance.


Like all Open Humanities Press books, Drone Aesthetics is available open
access (and can be downloaded for free):

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/drone-aesthetics/

--
Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/

Website:http://www.garyhall.info
Follow on Mastodon here: @garyhall at hcommons.social

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