Katherine Chandler, "Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Is There a Man Behind Unmanning?
I'm very interested in this psychological concept called disavowal, where r you say something isn't there, but precisely in saying it's there, you've recognize that it's there. Sm, one of the things that i think happens with unmanning is that says to us, unmanning, there's no man. But what becomes immediately apparent is there is definitely a man right there behind it. And that's specifically gendered. Ah, i think in an important way. Riht, they're not unwomened aircraft aof course, to day, many of the operators are women. I think we might ask ourselves this question about what kind of masculinity, what kind of imagined
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