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    Drone Poetics

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    Editors
    Colby, G
    Volume
    89/90
    Pagination
    116 - 136
    Publisher
    Lawrence and Wishart
    DOI
    10.3898/NEWF:89/90.07.2016
    Journal
    New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics
    ISSN
    1741-0789
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    Abstract
    ‘Drone Poetics’ considers the challenge to the theory and practice of the lyric of the development of drone warfare. It argues that modernist writing has historically been influenced by aerial technology; drones also affect notions of perception, distance and intimacy, and the self-policing subject, with consequences for contemporary lyric. Indeed, drone artworks and poems proliferate; and while these take critical perspectives on drone operations, they have not reckoned with the phenomenological implications of execution from the air. I draw out six of these: the objectification of the target, the domination of visuality, psychic and operational splitting, the ‘everywhere war’, the intimacy of keyhole observations, and the mythic or psychoanalytic representation of desire and fear. These six tropes indicate the necessity for a radical revision of our thinking about the practice of writing committed poetry in the drone age.
    Authors
    BRADY, A
    URI
    http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/21046
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    • School of Politics and International Relations [733]
    Language
    English
    Licence information
    This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics following peer review. The version of record is available http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/lwish/nf/2016/00000089/F0020089/art00008;jsessionid=9waoouj4b4x3.x-ic-live-02
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