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Drone Form: Word and Image at the End of Empire
Nathan K. Hensley
I. “Enemies’ dead strewed the town”
At the British Library, dispatches from the frontlines of England’s merciless 1857 to 1858 counterinsurgency campaign in India are collected into folders marked “Miscellaneous Indian Mutiny Papers” and “India Office Records and Private Papers.” They read as a perverse and staccato kind of poetry, shaping tidings of insurrection and its suppression into the idiom of war-state bureaucracy, a jargon further formalized during its compression into the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2016
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, War & Conflict, Technology
Subjects
Drones