“…A different approach inquires into the 'agency' of weaponry to shape both the physical exercise of violent force and the normative landscapes in which it operates (Bourne, 2012;De Larringa, 2016;Gregory, 2011;Salter, 2015Salter, , 2016. Drawing on new approaches to materiality (Bennett, 2010;Braun and Whatmore, 2010;Coole and Frost, 2010;Latour and Weibel, 2005;Marres and Lezaun, 2011), and longstanding work in science and technology studies (Latour, 1987(Latour, , 1999Law and Hansard, 1999), weaponry is cast in a new light (Anaïs, 2011;Bolton, 2015;Bousquet, 2009;Gregory, 2011;Salter, 2015Salter, , 2016. From this perspective, weapons are not seen as constraints on human action, 'brute' things that get in the way of ideas.…”