Predator Empire: Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance
Ian G. R. Shaw
Abstract
This book explores the rise of the Predator Empire, the name for the contemporary “dronified” U.S. national security state. Moving from the Vietnam War to the “war on terror,” it investigates how changes in military strategy, domestic policing, and state surveillance have come together to enclose the planet in a robotic system of control. It argues that we are witnessing a transition from a labor-intensive “American empire” to a machine-intensive Predator Empire. Following philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Peter Sloterdijk, the book argues that the nonhuman environment directly influences ... More
Keywords: Drones, Warfare, International relations, Geography, Philosophy, Violence, Surveillance, War on terror, U.S., Vietnam
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816694730 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816694730.001.0001 |
