Kate Chandler’s book Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare (Rutgers University Press, 2020) charts a genealogy of experimental pilotless planes flown between 1936 and...
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Book Review Symposium – Katherine Chandler’s “Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare”
Intervention – “Arendtian Geopolitics after the 2021 UK Defence Review”
Ivana Bevilacqua (King’s College London) Leila Dawney (University of Exeter) Jay Emery (University of Sheffield) Daanish Mustafa (King’s College London) Julian Shaw (King’s...
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Video abstract – “Distinction and the Ethics of Violence: On the Legal Construction of Liminal Subjects and Spaces”
Forthcoming in Antipode 49(5) this November,* and available online now, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon’s “Distinction and the Ethics of Violence: On the Legal Construction of Liminal Subjects...
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A paper for Armistice Day – Derek Gregory’s “The Natures of War”
The conclusion to this powerful essay–which considers nature as “a medium through which military violence is conducted” in the First and Second World Wars and midcentury Vietnam–is...
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Intervention – 'Ghosts in the Machine: Drone Warfare will Haunt the Future'
by Ian G. R. Shaw, University of Glasgow How did the planet become a robotic hunting ground? The grip of a single nation over the world is a fantasy as old as empire. But in the past decade the...
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Intervention – 'AIRMINDED'
AIRMINDED from Ontofabulatory Research on Vimeo. MINUTES OF THE SOCIETY FOR ONTOFABULATORY RESEARCH EXCERPT FROM MEETING TO DISCUSS REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICAL PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY 1....
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Society and Space mini forum – 'Militarism?'
Our colleagues over at Environment and Planning D: Society and Space have just published an excellent 'mini forum' on their open site. Entitled 'Militarism?', the forum includes pieces from members...
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