Contesting Post-digital Futures: Drone Warfare and the Geo-politics of Aerial Surveillance in the Middle East

Anthony Downey, Heba Y. Amin*

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    Abstract

    The following conversation with artist Heba Y. Amin draws upon a series of projects that we have been working over an 18 month period, including our volume Heba Y Amin: The General’s Stork (Sternberg Press, 2020) and her solo UK show, “When I see the future, I close my eyes”, at the Mosaic Rooms (London), 1/10/20–28/03/21. Throughout the conversation, we focus on the research background to The General’s Stork, alongside other works, and the threat presented by drone-based forms of aerial surveillance and targeting across the Middle East. In particular, we enquire into how the post-digital future of surveillance technologies will impact on the region and how, in turn, those regional politics of drone technology increas- ingly define the geopolitics of global aerial surveillance.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number4
    Pages (from-to)65-73
    Number of pages8
    JournalDigital War
    Volume1
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - 10 Jul 2020

    Keywords

    • Surveillance
    • Drones
    • Digital Methodologies, Algorithms, AI, and Protest
    • Decolonial Practices
    • Practice-led research
    • Egypt

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