Unmanning: How Humans, Machines, and Media Perform Drone Warfare

by Katherine Chandler

Book Overview

Unmanning studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes flown between 1936 and 1992. Characteristics often attributed to the drone--including machine-like control, enmity and remoteness--are achieved by displacements between humans and machines that shape a mediated theater of war. Rather than primarily treating the drone as a result of the war on terror, this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978809751
• ISBN13: 9781978809758
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"