03773nam a22004095i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001300153072001600166072002300182072001500205100008100220245018300301250001800484264007900502300006500581336002600646337002600672338003600698347002400734490004300758505054900801520169101350650002903041650003603070710003403106773002603140776003603166776003603202776003603238830004303274856004603317978-3-031-70435-2DE-He21320251030113248.0cr nn 008mamaa241027s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830317043527 a10.1007/978-3-031-70435-22doi 4aJZ2-6530 7aJPS2bicssc 7aPOL0110002bisacsh 7aJPS2thema1 aF.Caetano, Gabriel.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aDrones and the Annihilation-Image in Contemporary Warfareh[electronic resource] :bThe Case of 'Eye in the Sky' in the Washington-Hollywood Entanglement /cby Gabriel F.Caetano.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXII, 291 p. 37 illus., 27 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aGlobal Political Sociology,x2946-55670 aChapter 1: Introduction: How do images participate in the annihilation of humans? -- Chapter 2: Thinking and Writing (politics) Cinematically: The Cinematic mode of political theorizing -- Chapter 3: Aesthetics and International Relations: An overview of Sensible Politics -- Chapter 4: Drones: A visual, vertical, and virtual Genealogy -- Chapter 5: Washington and Hollywood: An Entanglement -- Chapter 6: Becoming-Drone: From Military Scopophilia to Annihilation-image -- Chapter 7:Drones in the Age of Excessive Autonomy: Concluding Remarks.  aThis book analyses the entanglement between Washington and Hollywood to shed light on the violence inherent in the image as a semiotic-material agent in contemporary warfare. In the 21st century, the weaponized military drone, an image-centered machine, has spearheaded the geopolitical curatorship of the USA in the context of the war on terror. Drone violence shares the same characteristics as cinema: image and movement. However, a drone's image is not purely a reflection of the nature of war; it is more than representational, it is performative. Building upon the concept of annihilation-image, this book argues that the image wields a destructive agency as it transitions from reflection to diffraction. Rather than mirroring reality, the annihilation-image creates a brutal pattern of difference in the world. It is a destructive ontology in which seeing and annihilating are in a state of superposition. Therefore, everything that is framed is potentially dead. That is to say, by framing bodies and objects in the terrain, a state of superpositional violence is created in which one is alive, but virtually dead. Gabriel F. Caetano holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio). He is currently an Assistant Professor of International Relations at IESB University Centre in Brasília-DF. He is an associate researcher at the Network of Peace, Conflict, and Critical Security Studies (PCECS) and a member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). His primary research interests focus on the dynamics of war and peace, with a particular emphasis on aesthetics, visuality, and new weapons technologies. 0aInternational relations.14aInternational Relations Theory.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303170434508iPrinted edition:z978303170436908iPrinted edition:z9783031704376 0aGlobal Political Sociology,x2946-556740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70435-2