Gabriela Méndez Cota
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MexicoEmail Gabriela Méndez Cota received her PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, for a thesis titled The Genetic Contamination of Mexican Nationalism (2014). In 2011 she edited…
Monarch Drone Communiqué: Evolution of the Eyes (in the Sky, Head and Hand – Plastique Fantastique
Text: David Burrows, Mark Jackson, Simon O’Sullivan, Stuart Tait Images: Ana Benlloch, David Burrows, Mark Jackson, Alex Marzeta, Vanessa Page, Simon O’Sullivan, Stuart Tait There is a technique for analysing…
Welcome to the Electrocene, an Algorithmic Agartha – Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
¶I—As Above, So Below. Dagmar Buchwald begins her contribution to a recent anthology on The Hollow-Earth as Concept and Conceit (Buchwald, 2012) with a vision of planetary – indeed post-planetary…
Vaporents: Inhuman Orientations – Dane Sutherland
Although in general you could call us ‘depressed’, I honestly don’t believe we’re pessimistic. Without nostalgia – without even being emotional – we’re looking to the future. We consider ourselves…
Educative Power: The Myth of Dronic Violence in a Period of Civil War – Mike Neary
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.…
Vague Ideas, Clear Images – Eva Parra Iñesta
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.…
A Prairie Drone Companion – Brad Bolman
[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…
Drone It Yourself! On the Decentring of ‘ Drone Stories’ – Maximilian Jablonowski
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…
The Control Room: A Media Archaeology – Cormac Deane
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…
Drone Media: Unruly Systems, Radical Empiricism and camera Consciousness – Anthony McCosker
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…