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...Sina Rahmani Austro-Afghan journalist and writer Emran Feroz discusses his work on the global drone war currently being waged by the US and its allies. The interview explores the author’s experiences growing up in Austria immediately after the September 11, 2001, attacks against the United States...

... can flourish in the absence of overt physical violence, it remains relevant to an age marked by ever-expanding drone warfare. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 militarization feelings militarization of feeling drones invisibility References Benjamin Walter . 1991 . “Zur...

... and variegated oeuvre among critics highlights a pervasive and troubling provincialism afflicting this supposedly global moment in world cultural history. Using Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn , the author links the emergence of “distant” modes of reading to drone warfare and concludes by calling for greater...

... studied how knowledge itself, often no matter where it emerges, has internalized militarization as one of its conditions of existence. Clear instances of the first line of investigation would be drone science and its applications or the use of anthropological and cultural knowledge in war zones...

... is a journalist and writer based in Germany. His writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Intercept, TRT (Turkish Radio and TV), Middle East Eye, among others. His book, Tod per Knopfdruck (2017) is one of the first in- depth studies of US drone warfare. He can be reached at [email protected]. 202...

... there are equivalents in all the major Indian languages, no doubt. “They made us read reading” would perhaps convey the absurdity? Any piece is a collection of discrete spelling exercises to be read in a high drone with little regard to punctuation. The scandal is that everyone knows this. After the girls...

... name for entrance into its properly political confines. The prosecution of Michael Brown, which is the proper technical name for the grand jury inves- tigation of Darren Wilson, the drone, is what our day in court looks like and always has. The prone, exposed, unburied body—the body that is given...

... parties beyond rhetorical flourishes. Both adhere to a great-power,­ expansion- ist foreign policy, of which war is the ready-­at-­hand tool, even as conven- tional forms of war give way to innovative forms of aggression (drones, cyberwar, global surveillance, the militarization of domestic police...

.... Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, I think, has con- structed her presidential persona as a continuation of Obama’s. However, in the primary contest with Bernie Sanders, she identified herself with what many consider the most troubling facets—the strengthening of the financial sector, drone...

....) In response to Protective Edge, BDS activists blocked a ZIM Line vessel from unloading its cargo at the Port of Oakland, shut down an Elbit Systems drone manufacturing facility in Kent, and undertook “blood bucket” challenges at the University of Ohio and at Yad Vashem. 11 The war also prompted a total...

... knows what we mean to say; if reality were that, without doubt a sort of cinematographic film of things would suffice and “style,” “literature” that departs from these simple givens would be an hors d'oeuvre—artificial. But was this really reality? (Proust) Taste maps our syndrome: our sin drone...

... instances of hypnotic op art by Takahiro Kurashima to be looked with the help of an included transparency, and even a commitment form that riffs on a New Age publication subscription. Chua and Rehding contend that music's foundation is not the static drone of a tone or a harmony (24). It is instead...

... seem to matter that Elvis didn’t write any of his songs. It’s because with him the delivery is everything. In contrast to the way most of his songs work, ‘‘Hound Dog’’ is a rant with the steady drone of either...

... (surveillance, drones, and so on) have arguably made it harder to fool most of the people most of the time. Terror talk, accordingly, is now seldom heard, though it still pollutes a common language in which genuinely positive political management (gun control, health care, immigration) does not earn...

... of the conversation. In our circles, to mention lawyers defending torture and drones or the fact that the Israeli army uses Deleuze 18 boundary 2 / November 2017 in its occupation of the West Bank is not to court controversy. Still, there is matter for controversy here. The understanding of historical...

.... Despite cosmetic changes, like renaming the War on Terror “overseas contigency operations,” the Obama administration has pursued the same military tactics—“Drone assassinations,” “special operations,” “detaining of unlaw- ful combatants,” and unauthorized surveillance—as his predecessor, thereby...

... cul- ture of global/local ferment is dominant in contemporary Seoul. Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle,” from his Sketch Book stories of 1819, had his wife-fearing Dutchman drone wake from a brew-induced sleep twenty years later to find the American Revolution had happened...

... to ask the dead to explain what happened and solve the case. Instead, the dead victims appear before You as accusers: The medium falls to the floor before you, now she sits upright, taut and still, and now her mouth begins to open, to speak. In a disembodied drone, it speaks. It speaks the words...

..., Patriot missiles intercepting Iraqi rockets, laser-guided ‘‘smart bombs’’ flying through its video crosshairs down a smoke stack, sighted U.S. tanks wielding their sensory superiority over blind Iraqi tanks, pilotless 168 boundary 2 / Summer 2002 drones rounding up enemy soldiers—all...

... of digging or unearthing. Unlike William Carlos Williams’s soil sample in Paterson, or Charles Olson’s inventory of the provisions needed for the fourteen men who spent the first winter in Gloucester in The Maximus Poems, or even Robert Smithson’s droning mantra, in his essay on the Spiral Jetty...