Readings Week 7NOTES ON Gregory, Derek (2011) From a View to a Kill: Drones and Late Modern War, Theory, Culture & Society 28: 188-215. Use of drones alienates the families of casualties and pushes them towards radicalisation; joining local violent extremists becomes more desirable than tolerating a faceless enemy who wages war through drones Use of drones amounts to extra-judicial killing If civilian agencies such as CIA use drones to conduct military operations then their agents become unlawful combatants Defenders of drones suggest that their use minimises the risk of casualties and allow for precise and calibrated response, while opposers argue that killing becomes too casual, reduced to a video game Death of distance enables death from a distance drone missions project power without vulnerability Main argum: contrary to argum that drones reduce war to a video games, article argues that the new visibilities produced by drone use enable an intimacy that consistently privileges the view of the hunter-killer implications are far more deadly than that of a video game warfare Distance = a powerful mean to overcome the resistance to kill YET video games do not stage violence as passive spectacle, they are profoundly immersive Cases of drone crews suffering from post-traumatic stress induced by constant exposure to high-quality images of real-time killing Increasing role of judge advocates who approve drone targeting Legal advisers always stationed on combat operations floors to scrutinize image streams and to inform the commanders of the legal parameters of the drone attacks Role of rhetoric drone surgical strikes described by US commanders as a necessary treatment for Afghanistan like powerful antibiotics for a weakened body bio-medical references render military violence intrinsically therapeutic Conventional war used to be defined by the principle of equality in front of death and the raw intimacy of the killing space BUT with technological advances dispersion and distribution of both the faceless enemies that wage war from afar and the faces of their human targets across a network that produces peculiar new forms of intimacy, at once collective and one-sided1