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Category Archives: Biopolitics
Remote: a Documentary about Drones and Humans
This is a 33-minute documentary I produced about drone warfare. It covers a lot of ground–from the history of air power, to signature strikes, miniaturized swarming, the future of policing, the role of autonomous AI, and what it all means … Continue reading
Posted in Biopolitics, Drone Technology, History of Drones, Uncategorized
Tagged art, Biopolitics, documentary, Drones, history, humans, Palestine, philosophy, robots, Signature strikes, surveillance, Swarming, U.S., War on Terror
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The Urbanization of Drone Warfare: Policing Surplus Populations in the Dronepolis
For actual paper follow this link. Abstract. This paper explores the urbanization of drone warfare and the securitization of the “surplus population.” Defined as a bloc of humanity rendered as structurally unnecessary to a capital-intensive economy, the surplus population is … Continue reading
Posted in Biopolitics, Civilian drones and robotics, Customs and Border Patrol, Geopolitics and International Relations, Military Industrial Complex, Robotics, Secrecy and Surveillance
Tagged capitalism, Critical security studies, drone warfare, Drones, Foucault, international relations, Marx, police, Power, Security, Sloterdijk, Surplus populations, surveillance
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Policing Mass Civil Breakdown
Three inter-related stories caught my eye over the weekend–all of which point to different forms of policing “disorder,” from the planetary scale, to the urban environment, right down to the doorways outside of grocery stores. The question that needs to … Continue reading
Posted in Biopolitics, Policing
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Predator Empire, Dronification of State Violence – Open Access
Two of my papers on drone warfare have been made freely available by the publisher: Ian Shaw and Majed Akhter, The Dronification of State Violence (2014). Geopolitics. Available here. This article explores the shifting methods of U.S. state violence. Building … Continue reading
Posted in Baseworld, Biopolitics, Hannah Arendt, History of Drones
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Drone-proof cities in an age of surveillance?
Check out “Shura City“, an urban environment designed to counter robotic forms of surveillance. It is a place for the hunted to hide. The city is therefore part of a long history of architectural blueprints that have “defensible space”–in some … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Biopolitics
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The Endgame: The War of All Against All (The Dronification of State Violence, Conclusion)
The Endgame: The War of All Against All (The Dronification of State Violence, Conclusion) “The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world” — Hannah Arendt, 1969[1] The … Continue reading
The Dronification of State Violence, Part V: A Well-Oiled Killing Machine, and the Rule by Nobody
Previous section: The Dronification of State Violence, Part IV: The Predator A Well-Oiled Killing Machine, and the Rule by Nobody The creation of the drone target is an intensely bureaucratic process. Understanding the various processes behind what Gregory McNeal calls a … Continue reading
Posted in Biopolitics, Brennan, Hannah Arendt, History of Drones
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The Dronification of State Violence, Part 1: Life and Death in the West Wing
This post is part of a series of sections from a broader paper, which can be found online here. Full citation: Ian Shaw and Majed Akhter (2014) The Dronification of State Violence, Critical Asian Studies, 46(2): 211-234. Introduction: Life and … Continue reading
The Dronification of State Violence – published
I have just been notified that Critical Asian Studies have published my co-authored paper, “The Dronification of State Violence.” Here’s the abstract: This article explores the shifting methods of U.S. state violence. Building on their earlier work, the authors focus … Continue reading
Intervention – ‘Ghosts in the Machine: Drone Warfare will Haunt the Future’
Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
by Ian G. R. Shaw, University of Glasgow How did the planet become a robotic hunting ground? The grip of a single nation over the world is a fantasy as old as empire. But in…
Posted in Biopolitics, Drone Technology, Empire
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Understanding Empire: Technology, Power, Politics 