[Commlist] Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology - new book

Announcing the latest title in Open Humanities Press's Technographies 
series:

/Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology/ 
<https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/drone-aesthetics/>, 
edited by Beryl Pong and Michael Richardson.

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/drone-aesthetics/

There can be little doubt of the canonical drone aesthetic: a flattened 
aeriality that moves with an inhuman smoothness, drifting and pitching 
to capture an uncanny vantage. But with the unfolding, contested 
landscape of drone development and proliferating drone use, how is this 
disruptive technology changing our understanding of war, culture and 
ecology?

This edited collection offers a pluralized understanding of drones by 
bringing together twelve essays from interdisciplinary scholars working 
on drone pasts and drone futures, encompassing fields such as cultural 
anthropology, critical war studies, disability studies, international 
relations, media studies, and cultural studies. It examines the 
intersection between drones and aesthetics in terms of visual culture 
and the arts; the body and its relationship to the material environment; 
the mechanic capacities for sensing and sense-making; and in terms of 
politics and what makes politics possible. To more fully account for the 
unique politics of drone perception, it also features three visual 
essays by multimedia artists whose aesthetic practices have shaped the 
field of drone scholarship. Offering new ideas and arguments about the 
technology, logics, and systems with which drones are intertwined, this 
collection scrutinises how the aesthetics of drones are fundamental to 
its ethics; how drone aesthetics are impacting the way we relate to one 
another and to the human and more-than-human worlds; and how drones are 
altering our relationships to life and death.

Contributors: Michele Barker, Antoine Bousquet, Kathryn 
Brimblecombe-fox, Edgar Gomez Cruz, Joseph DeLappe, Jack Faber, Adam 
Fish, Caren Kaplan, Amy Gaeta, Sophia Goodfriend, Mitch Goodwin, Anna 
Munster, Tom Sear, J.D. Schnepf, Yanai Toister, Simon M. Taylor, 
Madelene Veber.

*Editor Bios*

Beryl Pong is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Centre for the Future 
of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. She holds affiliated positions 
with the Faculty of English and with Trinity College at Cambridge, and 
with the Department of English, Linguistics, and Theatre Studies at the 
National Univrsity of Singapore. She is the author of /British 
Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime: For the Duration/ (2020).

Michael Richardson is writer, researcher, and teacher living and working 
on Gadigal and Bidjigal country. He is an Associate Professor in Media 
and Culture at UNSW Sydney, where he co-directs the Media Futures Hub 
and the Autonomous Media Lab, and an Associate Investigator with the ARC 
Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making & Society. His 
research and writing examines technology, power, witnessing, trauma, and 
affect in contexts of war, security, and surveillance.


Like all Open Humanities Press books, Drone Aesthetics is available open 
access (it can be downloaded for free):

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/drone-aesthetics/

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