Unmanning : how humans, machines and media perform drone warfare /
Chandler, Katherine, 1978-
Unmanning : how humans, machines and media perform drone warfare / How humans, machines and media perform drone warfare Katherine Chandler. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource. - War culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
DRONE -- American Kamikaze -- Unmanning -- Buffalo hunter -- Pioneer -- Conclusion: nobody's perfect.
"Unmanning explores the largely understudied development and failure of unmanned aircraft from 1936-1992. Katherine Chandler uses a genealogical approach to explore how contradictions between human, machine, and enemy act politically in the distinct periods of World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, Israel, and the First Gulf War. The key contributions that Unmanning makes to the field of critical military studies are to problematize what drones and unmanned aircraft are through an analysis of history, to demonstrate how networked actions between human and nonhuman that comprise unmanned aircraft operate through duplicity, and to examine the failures central to the development, experimental use, and deployment of drones that are at once technological, social, and political."--
9781978809765 9781978809789
Drone aircraft--History--United States--20th century.
Drone aircraft--Case studies.
Human-machine systems--History--United States--20th century.
Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
UG1242 / .U563 2020
Unmanning : how humans, machines and media perform drone warfare / How humans, machines and media perform drone warfare Katherine Chandler. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource. - War culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
DRONE -- American Kamikaze -- Unmanning -- Buffalo hunter -- Pioneer -- Conclusion: nobody's perfect.
"Unmanning explores the largely understudied development and failure of unmanned aircraft from 1936-1992. Katherine Chandler uses a genealogical approach to explore how contradictions between human, machine, and enemy act politically in the distinct periods of World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, Israel, and the First Gulf War. The key contributions that Unmanning makes to the field of critical military studies are to problematize what drones and unmanned aircraft are through an analysis of history, to demonstrate how networked actions between human and nonhuman that comprise unmanned aircraft operate through duplicity, and to examine the failures central to the development, experimental use, and deployment of drones that are at once technological, social, and political."--
9781978809765 9781978809789
Drone aircraft--History--United States--20th century.
Drone aircraft--Case studies.
Human-machine systems--History--United States--20th century.
Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
UG1242 / .U563 2020