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<p>Announcing the latest title in Open Humanities Press's
Technographies series:</p>
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<p><a
href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/drone-aesthetics/"><em>Drone
Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology</em></a>, edited by Beryl
Pong and Michael Richardson.</p>
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href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/drone-aesthetics/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/drone-aesthetics/</a></p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Editor Bios</strong></p>
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<p>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 <em>British
Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime: For the
Duration</em> (2020).</p>
<p>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.</p>
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Like all Open Humanities Press books, Drone Aesthetics is
available open access (and can be downloaded for free):</p>
<p><a
href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/drone-aesthetics/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/drone-aesthetics/</a></p>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/">https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/</a>
Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Follow on Mastodon here: @garyhall@hcommons.social
Latest:
'Magazine': Robot Review of Books: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/">https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/</a>
Journal article: 'Culture and the University as White, Male, Liberal Humanist, Public Space', New Formations: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformations/vol-2023-issue-110/abstract-9912/">https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformations/vol-2023-issue-110/abstract-9912/</a> (Open access pre-print available here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/culture-and-the-university-as-white-male-public-liberal-humanist">https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/culture-and-the-university-as-white-male-public-liberal-humanist</a>-.)
Blog posts: 'A Brief History of Writing: From Human Meaning to Pattern Recognition and Beyond', with Joanna Zylinska, The Writing Platform: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thewritingplatform.com/2024/05/a-brief-history-of-writing-from-human-meaning-to-computational-pattern-recognition-and-beyond/">https://thewritingplatform.com/2024/05/a-brief-history-of-writing-from-human-meaning-to-computational-pattern-recognition-and-beyond/</a>
'Creative AI: Thinking Outside the Black Box', Media Theory: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/05/24/gary-hall-creative-ai-thinking-outside-the-black-box/">https://mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/05/24/gary-hall-creative-ai-thinking-outside-the-black-box/</a>
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