Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies

Evidence

But the opposite may well be true, for if a liberal security state found a way of doing without the sacrifices of warfare, it might, pace Hegel, claim to have finally and without apparent contradictions realized its announced program. And it is precisely this that tends to justify the dronization of the armed forces. One can thus grasp what is politically at stake here: reconciling the neoliberal restriction of the aims of state power to security matters with the maintenance of its prerogative to wage war. Waging war, but without sacrifices. Freely exercising war-waging sovereignty, but within the internal political conditions of sovereign security and protection. Abolishing the contradiction. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 565 (#expands, via linked claim)

The invention of the armed drone has revealed not only a redoubtable weapon but also, simultaneously, something else, but without our noticing it and almost by mistake: namely, a technical solution to a fundamental tension that has put a strain on the theory and practice of political sovereignty ever since the seventeenth century. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 556 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The drone resolved a centuries-old contradiction in the theory of state sovereignty over war; The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 556; The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 565 (+10 more)

Related

• The drone resolved a centuries-old contradiction in the theory of state sovereignty over war (similarity 0.96)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. (similarity 0.96)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.95)
• Drone assassination reframes war as social defense through preventive security measures (similarity 0.88)
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace (similarity 0.87)
• Armed drone projects were framed as solving Vietnam’s political contradictions (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (similarity 0.86)
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity (similarity 0.86)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.85)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.85)
• Drone use lowers the threshold so violence becomes the default foreign policy option. (similarity 0.85)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.85)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.85)
• Drones’ necroethics embody a nationalism of self-preservation (similarity 0.84)
• Protecting national lives through drones increases their social precariousness. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• The drone resolved a centuries-old contradiction in the theory of state sovereignty over war #expands (0.60)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 556
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 565
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace #expands (0.55)
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace #expands (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity #expands (0.55)
• Drone assassination reframes war as social defense through preventive security measures #expands (0.50)