Global Threats; Drone Geographies (2009), GCGCA(i)
Drone Geographies
Drone Museum Horie, Osaka
23 Sep - 21 Dec 2009
In George Brant’s play Grounded a pilot describes the difficulty of maintaining the separation necessary for her to decompress, and gradually and ever more insistently one space keeps superimposing itself over the other; the fixed, precise sensor of the Gorgon Stare yields to a blurred vision in which she finds it virtually impossible to know where (or who) she is.
Drone Geographies (2009), GCGCA(i)
The two worlds begin to become one: the desert on the night drive home from Creech starts to look like the greyed-out desert landscape in Afghanistan, and the face of a little girl on the screen, the daughter of a High Value Target, turns into the face of her own child.
Target Space, body-space; Drone Geographies (2009), GCGCA(i)
Those who live in the attack zones often criticize drone strikes as cowardly, but the fact that most of those flying these online missions do not put their own lives on the line has also sparked a series of domestic debates about military ethics and codes of honour.
Drone Geographies (2009), GCGCA(i)
These have traditionally invoked a reciprocity of risk that gave war what Clausewitz saw as its moral force: to kill with honour, the soldier must be prepared to die. Now the remote warrior remains the vector of violence but is no longer its potential victim. Indeed, some critics have ridiculed the drone crews as ‘cubicle warriors’ who merely ‘commute’ to war. A ‘remote split’ characterizes these operations. We have entered the age of the interdigit(al)ization of endless war and peace.
- Derek Gregory; Drone Geographies; Radical Philosophy 183 (Jan/Feb 2014)
Drone Geographies (2009), GCGCA(i)
