amateur drones cost a few hundred dollars and can produce striking films

Evidence

Following in the footsteps of the model enthusiasts of the 1960s, there today exists a whole little community of amateurs who buy or construct drones at the cost of a few hundred dollars. With their microcameras on board, these machines make it possible to produce unofficial little films, some of which are strikingly beautiful. I am thinking in particular of a flight over New York in which, once over the Brooklyn Bridge, the camera scans the facades of the skyline, ending up by gliding past the flame on the Statue of Liberty. Proof enough of the validity of Walter Benjamin’s thesis that technology, today used for death-dealing purposes, may eventually recover its emancipating potential and readopt the playful and aesthetic aspirations that secretly inspire it. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 303

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s thread on civilian/military drone permeability and the ‘twisted logic’ of the drone operatives’s mundane-cum-lethal duality. — connects to: Homemade drones can become unconventional weapons capable of penetrating secure areas — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 304

Related

• Homemade drones can become unconventional weapons capable of penetrating secure areas (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Homemade drones can become unconventional weapons capable of penetrating secure areas #expands (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 304