Book:
The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities

Simple item page
dc.creatorMaurer, Kathrin
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-13T20:03:10Z
dc.date.available2024-05-13T20:03:10Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractDrone technology has garnered critical attention across many fields, from engineering to the humanities. While the first wave of drone scholarship was key in initiating the debate on drones, it also privileged the idea of the “scopic regime”—a militarized regime of hypervisuality—in its analyses of the connection between vision and power. The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities broadens the drone's spectrum of perception by acknowledging its creative, life-affirming possibility with the notion of the sensorium. The sensorium of the drone is a multimedia, synesthetic sensing assemblage in which the human agent is enmeshed with the drone. Drone sensoria can sense in many more ways than the scopic regime—with sound, touch, smell, temperature, and movement. In The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities, Kathrin Maurer shows how drone sensoria can change our understanding of human communities by constructing imaginaries of social communities based on decentralized and fluid sensing processes. Maurer takes an aesthetic approach to technology, working with two understandings of aesthetics. One understanding refers to aesthetics as a way of experiencing, and it explores how the drone-human assemblage perceives the world. The other refers to aesthetic mimetic representation, and focuses on how aesthetic drone imaginaries in literature, popular culture, visual arts, and films negotiate the sensorial technology of the drone. Bringing together key ideas in technology studies, studies of aerial views, visual and aesthetic studies, posthuman sensing, machine–human interaction, and communities, The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities sheds a welcome and necessary light on this technology's creative potential as well as its dangers and risks.en
dc.identifier.doi10.7551/mitpress/14146.001.0001
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22053
dc.identifier.isbnisbn:978026237490
dc.identifier.urihttps://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545907/the-sensorium-of-the-drone-and-communities/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23414
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherThe MIT Press
dc.publisher.placeCambridge
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectSensoriumen
dc.subjectDrone Technologyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleThe Sensorium of the Drone and Communitiesde
dc.typebook
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeBook
local.coverpage2024-05-15T02:30:31
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545907/the-sensorium-of-the-drone-and-communities/

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
Maurer_2023_Sensorium_.pdf
Size:
22.69 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Original PDF with additional cover page.
Download

Collections

Monographien