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Drone Cultures

From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art
By John Muthyala
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
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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, Drone Cultures traces its emergence in... Read More
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Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also instruments for creative activity, entertainment, and innovative education and public safety.

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also instruments for creative activity, entertainment, and innovative education and public safety.

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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, Drone Cultures 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 tools of possibility— the book challenges us to see them as both.

Drones are reshaping how we understand war and peace, distance and time, privacy and surveillance, power and accountability, democracy and governance. Drone Cultures invites readers to use the drone as a lens on our evolving human condition.

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350530454

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 January 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 11 bw illus

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

John Muthyala is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Southern Maine, USA

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