Abstract:Beginning with a personal story about finding a humpback whale with a drone off the coast of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, this chapter proceeds to introduce the book's key concepts: intimacy, or how drones bring humans closer to marine species; technicity, or how drones are extensions of human bodies; elementality, or how drones are influenced by the sea and the wind; and governmentality, or how pilots aspire to a caring control over marine species with drones. Nature realism, or the drone operator's pr… Show more
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