Dirty dancing and spaces of exception in Pakistan
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),...
View ArticleMore unfinished business: haunting Waziristan
I’m just finishing up a new essay on drones and later modern war – “Moving targets and violent geographies” – and I’ll post the draft as soon as I’m done (this weekend, I hope). Next up is the essay...
View ArticleReporting from FATA
An update to my post about Wounds of Waziristan: there’s an excellent long-form interview with Madiha Tahir here (and a sawn-off version of the same discussion at Counterpunch). As you would expect,...
View ArticlePrecarious life
Just back from a wonderful trip to Toronto and York, where (among other things) I gave a new presentation on “Drones and the everywhere war“. It turned out to have been timely: there’s been a flurry...
View ArticleUnmanned and unmoored
Robert Greenwald‘s feature-length documentary film Unmanned: America’s drone wars is being released on 30 October: it will be streaming online for a limited time, but if you sign up here you will be...
View ArticleKeeping up with the Drones
Several recent contributions on military drones – what Forensic Architecture calls Unmanned Aerial Violence – you might be interested in. First, Steve Coll has a long essay in the latest New Yorker on...
View ArticleInhumanned
Better late than never… I talked about Robert Greenwald‘s Unmanned before – the video documentary he produced to accompany the Stanford/NYU report Living under Drones – and I’ve now discovered you can...
View ArticlePost-atomic eyes
I’m speaking at a conference called “Through Post-Atomic Eyes” in Toronto next month. Through Post-Atomic Eyes brings together an interdisciplinary group of artists and scholars to explore the complex...
View ArticleRooting for the uprooted
There’s an excellent account by Michael Hodges of Eyal Weizman‘s Forensic Architecture project (he now calls it a research agency) over at Wired UK. Unlike some media versions, this is fully – and...
View ArticleCounting casualties and making casualties count
In my analysis of CIA-directed drone strikes in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (see ‘Dirty Dancing’: DOWNLOADS tab) I drew upon the tabulations provided by the Bureau of Investigative...
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