Henry Havelock, “Telegram from Havelock to Calcutta,” August 17, 1857, British Library, India Office Select Materials, MSS Eur 124/19, unpublished MS.
Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times [1994
Ibid. Arrighi’s final book, Adam Smith in Beijing, points to the future his analysis imagined beyond American hegemony. The Braudel quote comes from Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century: The Perspective of the World, Vol. 3, trans. Sian Reynolds (Berkeley: University of California Press), 1992.
Hannah Arendt, On Violence (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1970), 53.
Roger Stahl, “What the Drone Saw: The Cultural Optics of Unmanned War,” Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 67, No. 5 (2013): 659–674; 659.
Ibid., 663.
Gregoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone (New York: The New Press, 2013), 38–39.
Loren Thompson, “Air Force’s Secret ‘Gorgon Stare’ Program Leaves Terrorists Nowhere To Hide,” Forbes, April 10, 2015 →
Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Vintage, 1994), 63.
Ibid., 77, emphasis added.
Julian Stallabrass, “Negative Dialectics in the Google Era: A Conversation with Trevor Paglen,” October 138 (2011): 3–14; 4. See also Paglen, “Is Photography Over?,” Fotomuseum: Still Searching, March 3, 2014 →
Pierre Bourdieu, The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984), 3, 4.
Mike Maden, Drone (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013), 15.
Bookscan reports that sales in this new subgenre have yet to storm the culture industry, though the numbers would be the envy of many academics. Maden’s series has sold around 23,600 copies (Drone, 6493 hardcover and 9838 paperback; Drone Command, 609 hardcover; and Blue Warrior, 1285 hardcover and 5469 paperback). Clarke’s Sting of the Drone has sold around 7,600 copies (4849 hardcover and 2760 paperback). And the literarily aspirational Fesperman clocks in last, at around 1,250 copies (985 hardcover and 268 paperback). By comparison, Tom Clancy’s latest book, Commander In Chief, has sold a little over 145,000 copies. I thank Sam Douglas and Becky Cole for tracking down these figures.
Maden, Drone, 17.
Ibid.
Ibid., 353.
Ibid., 32, 37.
Ibid., 158.
“Global Vigilance, Global Reach, Global Power for America,” US Air Force website, 2014, 7, emphasis in original →
Richard A. Clarke, Sting of the Drone (New York: St. Martin’s, 2015), 10. Unlike in earlier phases of infantry warfare, now doughy, effeminate bureaucrats and (as the newspaper articles so often point out) office workers who commute home at 5 p.m. exercise the state’s capacity to kill. Clarke’s non-hero is called Dougherty, fairly advertising this, while Erik Parsons, the CO of the doughboy’s unit of suburban killers, is described in the mode of mock-heroic: “If pilots were supposed to look like the cartoon hero Steve Canyon, tall and blonde, Erik Parsons looked more like a wrestling coach” (4).
Ibid., 6.
Ibid., 8.
Ibid., 8–10.
Ibid., 10.
Maden, Drone, 406.
Ibid., 412.
Ibid., 413, emphasis added.
Quoted in Audrey Jaffe, Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience (Berkeley: University California Press, 1991), 15.
Maden, Drone, 365, 221.
Clarke, Sting, 31–32, emphasis added.
Maden, Drone, 170.
International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic (Stanford Law School) and Global Justice Clinic (NYU School of Law), Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians from U.S. Drone Practices in Pakistan, September 2012, 70, 65.