MOAB and the moral economy of bombing
In Reach from the Sky, my Tanner Lectures which I’m presently preparing for publication, I sketched what I called a ‘moral economy of bombing’: It’s the last of these claims that concerns me here:...
View ArticleDistinction and the ethics of violence
In another lifetime, or so it seems, I wrote a short essay on ‘The death of the civilian’ (DOWNLOADS tab), and I seem to have spent much of the intervening years developing those early ideas. So I’m...
View ArticleShadow World
I am thrilled to announce our next Wall Exchange at the Vogue Theatre (Granville Street) in downtown Vancouver at 7 p.m. on Tuesday 7 November: Andrew Feinstein on ‘The shadow world of the global arms...
View ArticleDrone Imaginaries and Society
News from Kathrin Maurer of a conference on Drone Imaginaries and Society, 5-6 June 2018, at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense). I’ll be giving a keynote, and look forward to the whole event...
View ArticleWar Stories
New books on the radar: Gary Fields, Enclosure: Palestinian landscapes in a historical mirror (California, September 2017): Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in...
View ArticleCities under siege (I)
This is the first of a two-part post, in which I return (at last!) to a promissory note I issued last year about siege warfare in Syria. My return is prompted by a series of reports about the...
View ArticleGas Masques
This is both an interruption of and a supplement to my series of essays on the siege of Ghouta in Syria (‘Mass Murder in Slow Motion’): you can find the first (‘East Ghouta’) and second (‘Siege...
View ArticleSymmetries in warfare
As I read (too) many alt.left commentaries on siege warfare in Syria for my continuing series of posts, and the work of journalists and writers I once admired, two questions keep circling: (a) If,...
View ArticleGoogled
Following up my post on Google and Project Maven here, there’s an open letter (via the International Committee for Robot Arms Control) in support of Google employees opposed to the tech giant’s...
View ArticleDeath machines
New from Elke Schwarz, Death machines: the ethics of violent technologies (Manchester UP): As innovations in military technologies race toward ever-greater levels of automation and autonomy, debates...
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The Arab Archive
News via the War & Media Network of an important collection of essays edited by Donatella Della Ratta, Kay Dickinson and Sune Haugbolle, The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows. It’s...
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Biopolitics of the more-than-human
It’s still a long way off, but I can’t wait to share the news of a new book from Joseph Pugliese: Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: forensic ecologies of violence (Duke University Press, due in...
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