Article:
The light of God: Notes on the visual economy of drones

dc.creatorVäliaho, Pasi
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-26T11:51:34Z
dc.date.available2018-09-26T11:51:34Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis article charts the contemporary aerial military technology of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or drones, which are used for both surveillance and combat in current ‘overseas contingency operations’. It focuses on the form of techno-visual power that UAVs represent. Drone control screens facilitate the accumulation of data of the patterns of life of populations so as to detect potential future threats, whilst simultaneously acting as key players in pre-emptive strikes. This article explores the striving for spatio-temporal omniscience and omnipotency that animates this particular technology of vision – the drone as a technology of the ‘light of God’.en
dc.identifier.doi10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.VALI
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15151
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/light-god-notes-visual-economy-drones/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3334
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectDrohnede
dc.subjectKartografiede
dc.subjectMachtde
dc.subjectBevorrechtigungde
dc.subjectVisualitätde
dc.subjectKampf gegen den Terrorde
dc.subjectUnmanned Aerial Vehicleen
dc.subjectcartographyen
dc.subjectpoweren
dc.subjectpre-emptionen
dc.subjectvisualityen
dc.subjectWar on Terroren
dc.subject.ddcddc:399
dc.titleThe light of God: Notes on the visual economy of dronesen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationVäliaho, Pasi (2014): The light of God: Notes on the visual economy of drones. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 3 (2), 99–111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.VALI.
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T05:24:15
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.VALI
local.source.epage111
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage99
local.source.volume3

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