Harrier and Jaguar by Fiona Banner (Tate Britain, June 2010-January 2011). Image by Andrew Carr. Harrier and Jaguar by Fiona Banner (Tate Britain, June 2010-January 2011). Image by Henry Bloomfield.…
It is Sunday morning in Cali, the sunny Colombian city that is known as both the world’s capital of salsa dance and the former headquarters of a powerful drug cartel.…
[It is] as if the principle of the death penalty were less in question than the cruelty of its application, to the point that if one could find a means…
Living In a ‘Drone Culture’? In the first shot, there is a kitchen table with different stuff on it. The text overlay explains this to be the ‘ingredients’. The camera…
Fig.1 Predator Drone Control Room, Balad US Air Base, Iraq, August 2007 Drone conflict is carried out by combatants facing a bank of screens and operating an array of controls…
Our fields of experience have no more definite boundaries than have our fields of view. Both are fringed forever by a more that continuously develops, and that continuously supersedes them…
A newspaper headline demands our attention: ‘Suspected US drone strikes kill at least 13 in Pakistan, Afghanistan’ (Fox News, 2014). Perhaps at first glance, the headline appears unremarkable, just another…
Starting with its name, the drone is foreign to Spanish-speaking cultures: it is an invader of both aerial space and language. How can we speak about it without invoking inexplicable…
A Speculative Fantasy Once, in the near future, on a rainy island off the northern shores of one of the world’s great oceans, a young couple walked into an air-conditioned…
‘A Travelling Eye of God’ Lying in a hospital bed recovering from his physical and mental injuries, an unnamed World War One soldier, in Mary Butts’s short story ‘Speed the…