Drone Cultures

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

• Preface1: Rise of the Drone: Mobile Eye of Power 2: The Global Anarchy of the Surveillant Assemblage3: Biopolitics, Necropolitics, and Ethics in a Drone World4: Drone, Baby, Drone: Techno-neocolonialism and Postcolonial Mediations5: The New Aesthetic: Post-Digitality, Eversion, and Drone Cultures 6: Drone Dispositions in Art and Culture Epilogue

Drones are everywhere in contemporary life and with these new perspectives there has been a dramatic change in visual culture from warfare to entertainment. Drone Cultures analyzes this fast-moving phenomenon from every conceivable angle. Muthyala’s timely critique examines these devices, their myriad uses, and their cultural imaginaries while cracking wide open the aporia between the drone’s entanglement with ‘dominance, destruction, and death’ and ‘creativity, research, and education.’