I’ve noted several performance works that address drone wars before, and I’ve now encountered two more. George Brant‘s new play, Grounded, has been acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s a solo drama (‘monologue’ really doesn’t do it justice) … Continue reading
Some recent open access work on drones that intersects with my ongoing reading of Grégoire Chamayou‘s Théorie du drone. First, Philippe Theophanidis, a PhD student at the Université de Montréal, writes with the welcome news that he’s developed an online bibliography … Continue reading
I’m in the UK this week for – amongst other things – a seminar with Pete Adey, Sara Fregonese and some of the Geopolitics and Security students at Royal Holloway on my bombing project, Killing space; a workshop at Open Democracy … Continue reading
I’m working on a presentation that will turn into a long essay that may turn into a short book – one day I will learn how to write in brief! – and I thought I’d share some of the bibliographic … Continue reading
As promised in my previous post, here is the first installment of my essay on an airstrike on three vehicles in Uruzgan, Afghanistan on 21 February 2010; the incident was widely reported – see the images immediately below this prefatory … Continue reading
As the blog has grown, so it’s become increasingly difficult for readers to navigate through the different themes – and so this is a rough guide to some of the key posts which will, I hope, supplement a judicious use … Continue reading
And so another blogging year comes to an end, and with more visitors than ever. The elves at WordPress tell me that the ten most popular posts in 2015 were: Paris of/in the Middle East (November 2015) The prosthetics of … Continue reading
I now have more details to share about my Tanner Lectures in Cambridge next month, Reach from the sky: aerial violence and the everywhere war. First, here is a preliminary summary (not an easy thing to provide, since the … Continue reading
I’m delighted that Grégoire Chamayou and Chris Woods have both accepted invitations to act as discussants and interlocutors for my Tanner Lectures, “Reach from the Sky: aerial violence and the everywhere war“, in Cambridge in January. The format for the … Continue reading
Among a million and one other things, I’ve returned to my work on the history of bombing for my Reach from the Sky lectures in January. I’ve long admired Joshua Levine‘s work, and his Secret History of the Blitz is … Continue reading
geographical imaginations 