Unmanning by Katherine Chandler - 9781978809758

UnmanningHow Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare\nAuthor(s): Katherine Chandler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978809758, 978-1978809758\nSynopsis\nUnmanning studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes flown between 1936 and 1992. Characteristics often attributed to the droneincluding machine-like control, enmity and remotenessare achieved by displacements between humans and machines that shape a mediated theater of war. Rather than primarily treating the drone as a result of the war on terror, this book examines contemporary targeted killing through a series of failed experiments to develop unmanned flight in the twentieth century. The human, machine and media parts of drone aircraft are organized to make an ostensibly not human framework for war that disavows its political underpinnings as technolog.