Understanding (with) the Drone

Hildebrand, Julia M.

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“…I have flown drones for over 100 hours and have published accounts of precarious flights, technological foibles, and the heightened views the drone provides ( Fish, 2022b, 2021; Fish et al., 2018). Narrations from pilots from Europe to the Americas and Australasia confirm that far from being a disembodied act, drone piloting is emotionally charged (Garrett and Anderson, 2018; Hildebrand, 2021; Jablonowski, 2020; Klauser and Pedrozo, 2017; Serafinelli and O’Hagan, 2022). My many hours of flight in different countries and terrains proves piloting to also be a discursive, political, and practical act – one that is potentially dangerous, highly regulated, elementally contested, and hotly debated (Fish, 2022b; Fish et al., 2018; Jackman and Jablonowski, 2021).…”

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Saildrones and Snotbots in the Blue Anthropocene: Sensing technologies, multispecies intimacies, and scientific storying

Fish

2022

Environ Plan D

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Drones or unpersonned vehicles are mobile sensing technologies that collapse space and enhance proximity between scientists and marine species. As such, they improve the collection of biological data – images, migration maps, and fluid samples, for example. But while the drone’s benefits to oceanography are apparent, it is less clear what marine species receive for their unintentional participation in data collection. Building on ethnography, piloting experiments, interviews, and scrutiny of public blogs and scientific texts, this article documents two cases of drone oceanography, interrogates the multispecies intimacies they forge and considers what scientists return to marine animals in exchange for their biological data. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration directs ocean-surface Saildrones to follow northern fur seals in the Bering Sea, and Ocean Alliance, a not-for-profit research organization, collects microbes from cetaceans by flying aerial drones, or Snotbots, through their exhale. With the aim of generating more equitable reciprocities in waters that are surveyed by drones and increasingly challenging to live within, this article offers storying, or the building of existential narratives that support conservation through public engagement, as a way of forging multispecies reciprocities in the Blue Anthropocene – an era marked by existential urgencies, technological materialities, and elemental constraints.

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Saildrones and Snotbots in the Blue Anthropocene: Sensing technologies, multispecies intimacies, and scientific storying

Fish

2022

Environ Plan D

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“…Castro frames this as an ‘aestheticization of politics’ where the affective evocation of nostalgia and mourning ‘primarily speaks to the world’s privileged’ (Castro, 2020, p. 84). While consumer drone use is definitely an ‘assemblage of human and nonhuman agencies’ (Hildebrand, 2021, p. 67), in this specific genre, the human agent controlling the machine from the ground is rendered invisible.…”

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“…Drones, of course, emerged in the context of the military–industrial complex with their use enabling remote surveillance and warfare – often with devastating effects (Benjamin, 2012; Chamayou, 2015; Parks & Kaplan, 2017). But despite this intimate connection to violence, the use of drones as consumer objects (Hildebrand, 2021) and as a form of elemental media (Fish, 2020) has also seen an increase in the last few years. Drone use during the pandemic is not a product of the crisis, but, like the video-conferencing platforms mentioned above, has been accelerated by the crisis.…”

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Through a Drone Darkly: Drone Media as Pandemic Witnessing

Baishya¹

2022

BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies

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When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020, countries around the world began enacting lockdown measures and enforcing social distancing rules. Almost at the same time, the use of drones also began to see a spike, especially in the hands of civilian users. This article examines the phenomenon of the drone video as a genre of the pandemic. While drone imagery is not endemic to the COVID-19 crisis, in the face of mass deaths and lockdowns, drone users globally began to turn to the drone as a mobile archive machine. Drawing on recent scholarship on drones, I examine how the drone’s vertical vision afforded a form of pandemic witnessed by proxy. Despite the increasing use of drones for policing, surveillance and warfare, in the case of India, drone imagery also played an important role in countering government narratives about the pandemic and its body counts. Examining the drone images captured by the late photographer Danish Siddiqui, I demonstrate how the drone’s ‘vertical play’ facilitated the emergence of a counter-archive of the pandemic.

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Understanding (with) the Drone

Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

Saildrones and Snotbots in the Blue Anthropocene: Sensing technologies, multispecies intimacies, and scientific storying

Saildrones and Snotbots in the Blue Anthropocene: Sensing technologies, multispecies intimacies, and scientific storying

Through a Drone Darkly: Drone Media as Pandemic Witnessing

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