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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 226–249.
Published: 01 August 2018
... the material and formal processes that mediate our moment of fading geopolitical hegemony: the way of seeing proper to our drone era. The essay reads artworks about surveillance by multimedia artist Trevor Paglen; bestselling thrillers about drone war by Mike Maden and others; and technofetishistic novels...
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Published: 01 August 2018
Figure 1. Drone Vision , 2010 . Archival pigment print, 16×20 in. Copyright Trevor Paglen. Courtesy of the Artist, Metro Pictures New York, Altman Siegel San Francisco
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Figure 3. Trevor Paglen, Untitled (Reaper Drone) , 2010 . C-Print, 48×60 in. Edition of 5 plus 2 AP. Copyright Trevor Paglen. Courtesy of the Artist, Metro Pictures New York, Altman Siegel San Francisco.
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Figure 2. Screen shot, “The Drone Queen,” Homeland ep. 37 (season 4, ep. 1), Showtime, 2014
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 144–148.
Published: 01 May 2021
...? Reviewing drone art, Rhee provides a provocative analysis as she unpacks the differences between works that invite their Western audiences to identify with racialized targets and those that challenge that identification in order to underscore the legacy of racial violence in America. Pointing to the limits...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 157–165.
Published: 01 August 2018
... expression in the same optical rhetoric that serves as the theater for cyberwarfare in popular “drone thrillers” or how Teju Cole does the same thing when he uses the Twitter platform to sabotage the conclusions of classic novels with 140-character “drone stories.” Saint convinces me that Cole's Open City...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 409–432.
Published: 01 November 2012
... beating of a big drum filled the air with muffled shocks and a linger-
ing vibration. A steady droning sound of many men chanting each to himself some
weird incantation came out from the black flat wall of the woods as the humming of
bees comes out of a hive, and had a strange narcotic effect...
Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (3): 547–565.
Published: 01 November 2022
... as co-constitute . The geopolitical forms of covert domination (a delayed revelation in Powers's muted version of a conspiracy plot)—where ludic optical invention covers for the experimental refinements of drone target simulation—are a far cry from the intricate verbal forms that articulate, parse...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 65–81.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in an essential way to the creation of the cyclic rhythmicalness of time so characteristic of the idyll. ( Bakhtin 225 ) Jarndyce and Jarndyce is just such an “idyll.” We are told that the case has “droned on” for centuries and been a fixture for generations of families who have a stake in the case, both...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 339–359.
Published: 01 August 2022
... River are in turn framed by sections narrated by a chorus of mosquitoes (or miniature drones; the novel leaves this question unanswered). The dam—the structure that seemingly holds Zambian society together and the collapse of which pulls it apart—functions both as a physical frame and as a symbol...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 202–220.
Published: 01 August 2012
... that the phrase
is Darwin’s, from the end of The Origin of Species, which he “hallucinated . . . out of
the hairdryer’s drone, and confused it with the radio news” (55). The domestic com-
forts initially associated with the phrase give way to a much more precise articula-
tion based on Darwin...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 276–300.
Published: 01 August 2012
...
rained acorns on houses with no mortgage. Storm windows shuddered in the empty
bedrooms. And the drone and hiccup of a clothes dryer, the nasal contention of a leaf
blower, the ripening of local apples in a paper bag, the smell of the gasoline with which
Alfred Lambert had cleaned...
