Hellfire from Paradise Ranch on the front lines of drone warfare Joseba Zulaika

By:

Zulaika, Joseba [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oakland, California University of California Press 2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520974326

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

UG1242 .H455 2020

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Contents:

The Real : Home of the Hunters -- Fantasy and the Art of Drone Assassination -- Wars Returning from the Future -- Trauma : The Killer as Voyeur -- Resistance : A Harsh and Dreadful Love -- Epilogue

Subject: "Hellfire from Paradise Ranch deals with drone warfare as manhunting carried out via satellite from Creech AFB near Las Vegas. It examines the layers of fantasy on which counterterrorism and its self-sustaining logic are grounded, in addition to the trauma endured by drone operators when, due to their visual intimacy with their victims, that fantasy collapses. The book situates the resistance to drone killings in the same apocalyptic Nevada desert where nuclear testing, pacifist militancy, and Shoshone tradition overlap. The Epilogue, 'Obama's Troy, ' dwells on the tragic error of a good president unable to resist the deceptions of the counterterror state"--

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	UG1242.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1110672758

Prologue : Slaughterhouse-359 -- The Real : Home of the Hunters -- Fantasy and the Art of Drone Assassination -- Wars Returning from the Future -- Trauma : The Killer as Voyeur -- Resistance : A Harsh and Dreadful Love -- Epilogue

"Hellfire from Paradise Ranch deals with drone warfare as manhunting carried out via satellite from Creech AFB near Las Vegas. It examines the layers of fantasy on which counterterrorism and its self-sustaining logic are grounded, in addition to the trauma endured by drone operators when, due to their visual intimacy with their victims, that fantasy collapses. The book situates the resistance to drone killings in the same apocalyptic Nevada desert where nuclear testing, pacifist militancy, and Shoshone tradition overlap. The Epilogue, 'Obama's Troy, ' dwells on the tragic error of a good president unable to resist the deceptions of the counterterror state"--

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