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Living (and dying) under drones
Earlier this month I commented on the theatre of secrecy within which US drone strikes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan is staged: a discreditable rhetorical device that works to...
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Casualties of war
As most readers will know, there has been a lively debate – at once profoundly philosophical and intensely practical – about what counts as a ‘grievable’ (and indeed survivable) life after military and...
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Asymmetric law
Breaking the Silence has just published a major report into the Israeli military’s tactics during its most recent offensive against Gaza and its people, so-called ‘Operation Protective Edge’ (see my...
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Seeing Civilians (or not)
Very welcome news from Christiane Wilke that her essay, ‘Seeing and Unmaking Civilians in Afghanistan: Visual Technologies and Contested Professional Visions‘, has just been published in Science,...
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Tracking and targeting
News from Lucy Suchman of a special issue of Science, Technology and Human Values [42 (6) (2017)] on Tracking and targeting: sociotechnologies of (in)security, which she’s co-edited with Karolina...
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Taking it to the limit
A postscript to my posts here, here and here on civilian deaths from air strikes in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere: Vice has an extended interview with Chris Woods of Airwars here. The biggest issue we saw...
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Mass Murder in Slow Motion (I): East Ghouta
This is the first of a series of posts – continuing my discussions of Cities under Siege in Syria here, here and here – that will examine the siege of East Ghouta in detail. Today I begin with some...
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