Peter DeGabriele is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University and the author of Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political.
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1. Sovereign (Ir)responsibility 2. Remote Occupation 3. Deferred Extermination Introduction: Drone Warfare, Enlightenment, and Asymmetry Epilogue: Publicity and Mediation Bibliography
"DeGabriele makes original use of the drone and contemporary drone warfare to open up new readings of the early Enlightenment natural right tradition, as well as using that tradition to reread the drone to examine its relation to questions of sovereignty, occupation and the right to kill. The book straddles Enlightenment philosophy, British literature, warfare, and colonialism past and present, breathing fresh life into an often asthmatic area of scholarship." - Tony C. Brown, University of Minnesota, author of The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic