Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art

The drone is an object of contradiction: at once a weapon of war and a medium of wonder. Often linked to destruction and death, the drone also sparks creativity and enhances education.

Encouraging us to think critically about the drone, the book traces its emergence in twenty—first—century warfare and examines its entanglement with surveillance culture, biopolitics, and artificial intelligence, as well as its representations in literature and the arts. Drones are instruments of power and to...