Posts Categorized: Critical Theory

  • Critical Theory

    How and why to protect ourselves from unmanned aerial vehicles

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    Air space is public space, we all have the right to fly, but also the right to protect ourselves. Having an aircraft flying overhead can become a very intimidating situation when we do not know the pilot or the nature of the flight.

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    Aerial countervisuality and the right to look from somewhere

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    Drones are a dark technology (Lichty). The military drones that kill civilians are unevenly distributed, geographically. The video “Our Drone Future” (Cornell) imagines a scenario where UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), with their technologies and capabilities, come to be pervasive in the skies of our future cities. The panoptic vision of the drone is a fundamental part of contemporary “complex of visuality” defined by the military-industrial complex, according to Mirzoeff. He proposes “the right to look” as a form of opposition to this alliance of visuality and power.