دانلود کتاب Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing: On Drones, Counter-Insurgency, and Violence

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of tables Acknowledgements 1. The cultural politics of the targeted killing assemblage: Introduction Defining assassination and targeted killing Biopolitics, security, and the liberal way of war Beyond liberal biopolitics: a return to culture Methodology and culture Problematisations and styles of thought The cultural politics of targeted killing: lines of flight 2. Beyond the exception: The legal problematisation of targeted killing Introduction Violence, the law, and the exception Differentiating assassination and targeted killing in legal problematisations Targeted killing in war: Jus ad bellum problematisations Jus in bello problematisations Problematising targeted killing under international human rights law National legal problematisations Conclusions 3. The politics of targeted killing: Introduction Assassination and targeted killing as biopolitical narratives of violence Manhunts: an opening into the cultural politics of assassination and targeted killing Culture, politics, and violence Political violence, assassination, resonance Biblical representations of assassination Judith, ambivalence, and the narration of assassination events Conclusions 4. Science, capitalism, and the RPA: Introduction The scientific way of warfare Science, war, and economic organisation Capitalism, science, and war Science Revolution, military transformation, the Rumsfeld doctrine, and the dawn of netwar The RPA: conditions of possibility RPA acquisition RPA deployment The shift from RPA to drone: ‘autonomous’ machines and deskilling Desire, spectacle, and RPA proliferation Conclusions 5. The aesthetic subjects of targeted killing: Introduction The RPA as aesthetic subject RPA operators as aesthetic subjects Populations of interest as aesthetic subjects Conclusions 6. The quotidian geopolitics of targeted killing strikes: Introduction Vertical geopolitics, ungoverned spaces, and the everywhere war Sacred places and counter-insurgency The geopolitics of the home The home and Islam Drone strikes and houses The geopolitical consequences of the destruction of homes Broader geopolitical impacts Conclusions 7. Concluding remarks on the cultural politics of targeted killing: Introduction Chapter overview The cultural politics of targeted killing Implications The future of the targeted killing assemblage? Index