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Drone Cultures
From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art
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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...
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See moreExpanding 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 possibilityβ 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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Drone 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
About the Author
John Muthyala is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Southern Maine, USA
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