9 documents
High Line Art
Remote Control: Surveying Drones and Culture Today
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 17, 2022
Category
War & Conflict
Subjects
Drones
Institution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: November 27, 2019
Subjects
Landscape, Extractivism, Protests & Demonstrations, Drones, Community
Liam Young, “I Spy with my Machine Eye”
Liam Young
e-flux Events
Posted: March 31, 2017
Category
Film
Subjects
Drones
# 72
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
# 65
ARGUS is: An Almost Cock and Bull Story
Adam Kleinman
Part I: The All-Seeing
The voice of god speaks; we’re told we’re not ready to see something special. It’s classified. A camera tracks to the right and zooms in on a tarp covering an object. Dr. Yiannis Antoniades, a scientist at BAE Systems, a private multinational defense, security, and aerospace company, interjects: “it is important for the public to know,” but, he goes on, “we are not allowed to expose some of the pieces that make up the sensor, so you get to look at pretty…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Surveillance & Privacy, Technology, Internet
Subjects
Drones, Optics & Perception
# 64
Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
Eyal Weizman
Negative Positivism
The new millennium began with a bizarre legal battle. The David Irving trial, which unfolded at the English High Court of Justice between January and April 2000, involved one of the most aggressive cross-examinations of architectural evidence—drawings, models, aerial and ground-level photographs—ever undertaken in a legal context. The case unfolded around a libel suit filed by David Irving against an American writer and her publisher, Penguin Books, for calling him…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2015
Category
Architecture, Film, War & Conflict, Image
Subjects
Historicity & Historiography, Drones, Law & Justice
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 19, 2013
Category
Photography, Sculpture
Subjects
Drones
e-flux Criticism
Posted: March 4, 2013
Category
War & Conflict, Internet
Subjects
Video Art, Drones, Nuclear War
7 Essays
Compiled byLukas Brasiskis
With:
Doreen Mende, Kodwo Eshun, Jennifer Gabrys, Erika Balsom, Nathan K. Hensley, Hito Steyerl, Timotheus Vermeulen
e-flux Reader
Category
Data & Information
Subjects
Realism, Documentary, Drones, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Maps, Fiction, Factography