Overview
What does it mean for human beings to exist in an era of dronified state violence? How can we understand the rise of robotic systems of power and domination? Focusing on U.S. drone warfare and its broader implications as no other book has to date, ""Predator Empire"" argues that we are witnessing a transition from a labor-intensive American empire to a machine-intensive Predator Empire.
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Author: Ian G. R. Shaw
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9780816694747
ISBN 10: 0816694745
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 August 2016
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A compelling account of the geopolitics of the drone as it haunts policing, predation, and planet. Ian G. R. Shaw's book is as attentive to the historical and cultural geographies of the unmanned aerial vehicle as it is to the preemptive foreclosure of political futures. Louise Amoore, author of The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability
<i>Predator Empire</i> is an impressive and very timely text. This is a book that everybody concerned with the relationship between technology and security should take the opportunity to read. --<i>LSE Review of Books</i></p> <i>Predator Empire </i>is a provocative analysis of the outreach of technology, specifically drones, as new tools to entrench U.S. power globally. --<i>Science</i></p>
Predator Empire is an impressive and very timely text. This is a book that everybody concerned with the relationship between technology and security should take the opportunity to read. -LSE Review of Books Predator Empire is a provocative analysis of the outreach of technology, specifically drones, as new tools to entrench U.S. power globally. -Science In this timely and historically-engaged text, Shaw offers a distinct approach to the study of the drone in which the technology is apprehended as a more-than-human geopolitical actor, both the product and productive of practices of enclosure, atmospheric security, and policing. The result is a conceptually and contextually rich interrogation of the US drone programme, one yielding insights and analytic frameworks of utility beyond this focus. -Antipode What sets Shaw's book apart, and one of its major contributions to the study of the drone, is its emphasis on the human condition. -Society & Space Predator Empire is one of the most interesting books on drones and drone warfare to date. Its broader (theoretical) claims might require further elaboration, but its value as a theoretically and empirically rigorous book on drones remains evident. -AAG Review of Books A compelling account of the geopolitics of the drone as it haunts 'policing, predation, and planet.' Ian G. R. Shaw's book is as attentive to the historical and cultural geographies of the unmanned aerial vehicle as it is to the preemptive foreclosure of political futures. -Louise Amoore, author of The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability
Author Information
Ian G. R. Shaw is lecturer in human geography at the University of Glasgow.
