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001 2014033225
003 DLC
005 20150626081235.0
008 140829s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014033225
020 $a9781595589750 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $z9781595589767 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hfre
042 $apcc
050 00 $aUG479$b.C53 2015
082 00 $a172/.42$223
100 1 $aChamayou, Grégoire.
240 10 $aThéorie du drone.$lEnglish
245 12 $aA theory of the drone /$cGregoire Chamayou ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
264 1 $aNew York :$bThe New Press,$c[2015]
300 $a292 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aTechniques and tactics -- Methodologies for a hostile environment -- The genealogy of the predator -- The theoretical principles of manhunting -- Surveillance and annihilation -- Pattern-of-life analysis -- Kill box -- Counterinsurgency from the air -- Vulnerabilities -- Ethos and psyche -- Drones and kamikazes -- "That others may die" -- A crisis in military ethos -- Psychopathologies of the drone -- Killing from a distance -- Necroethics -- Combatant immunity -- A humanitarian weapon -- Precision -- The principles of the philosophy of the right to kill -- Indelicate murderers -- Warfare without combat -- License to kill -- Political bodies -- In war as in peace -- Democratic militarism -- The essence of combatants -- The fabrication of political automata -- Epilogue: on war, from a distance.
650 0 $aDrone aircraft$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aMilitary ethics.
700 1 $aLloyd, Janet,$d1934-