Category Archives: US Foreign Policy

Theory of the drone 3: Killing grounds

Posted on July 30, 2013 by bjmuller76

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
This is the third in a series of posts on Grégoire Chamayou‘s Théorie du drone, in which I provide a detailed summary of his argument, links to some of his key sources, and reflections drawn from my soon-to-be-completed The everywhere…

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Obama’s Willing Executioners of the Fourth Amendment by Norman Solomon — Antiwar.com

Posted on July 26, 2013 by bjmuller76

Obama’s Willing Executioners of the Fourth Amendment by Norman Solomon — Antiwar.com.

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Obama speaks about drone wars

Posted on May 26, 2013 by bjmuller76

It remains to be seen how much policy is likely to change as a result of Obama’s speech. How significant is it for the sovereign to openly admit to the exercise of exceptional power? Does this shine a light on … Continue reading →

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Spaces of constructed (in)visibility

Posted on May 22, 2013 by bjmuller76

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Further to my previous posts on air strikes in Pakistan here and here, the International Crisis Group today published a new report, Drones: Myths and Reality in Pakistan. From ICG’s media release: ‘The report’s major findings…

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Homing in

Posted on April 29, 2013 by bjmuller76

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I’m finally home from Europe – a strange sentence, I think, since I always feel so much at home when I return to Europe.  I spent the last week in the Czech Republic, where I…

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Visualizations of Conflict

Posted on April 25, 2013 by bjmuller76

My comment on why up-close-and-personal films about war don’t bring us any closer to the reality of the battlefield on OpenCanada.org as part of their in depth analysis of the Hot Docs festival.

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Drone-ing on and on

Posted on April 1, 2013 by bjmuller76

Noting or lamenting the continued resilience and importance of the military industrial complex is rather prosaic. As many have demonstrated, not least James Der Derian and Eugene Jarecki, the role of military industrial production in the US has regularly served … Continue reading →

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Watching the drones

Posted on March 27, 2013 by bjmuller76

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
An interesting interview over at the Huffington Post with Wesley Grubbs, one of the visual designers at Berkeley-based Pitch Interactive responsible for the infographic of drone strikes in Pakistan that was released on Monday and…

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Dirty dancing and spaces of exception in Pakistan

Posted on March 25, 2013 by bjmuller76

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Following up my post on the air campaigns waged by the United States and by Pakistan inside the Federally Administered Tribal Territories and the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), here are some screenshots from Chris…

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