Drone Cultures
from surveillance and warfare to literature and art
$47.00
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2026
Summary
Drone Cultures: Instruments of Power, Tools of Possibility
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, the book traces its emergence in twenty-first-century warfare and examines its entanglement with surveillance culture, biopolitics, and artificial intelligence, as we…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350530454 |
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| ISBN-10: | 135053045X |
| Series: | Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures |
| Author: | John Muthyala |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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Critics Review
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.’ – James E. Dobson, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College, USA. Author of ‘The Birth of Computer Vision’
About The Author
John Muthyala
John Muthyala is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Southern Maine, USA.
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