Diffused agency in drone networks fabricates irresponsibility by diluting intentionality into accident

Evidence

Not only can there be no simple attribution of responsibility, but the description of that responsibility, diffracted amid this headless network of multiple agents, tends to become diluted. It changes from being intentional to being unintentional, from being a war crime to being a military-industrial accident. Rather, as in the case of the “junk bonds” skillfully elaborated by finance, it becomes very difficult to determine who is who or who has done what. This is a typical way of fabricating irresponsibility. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 665

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s stated purpose about ‘the principle of impunity’ and ‘twisted logic’ of the imperial combatant — this is the mechanism of fabricated irresponsibility itself. — connects to: Drone psychopathology lies in produced compartmentalization, not operator trauma — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 427; Drone strikes depend on a network of remote invisible human observers; Distributed lethal systems fabricate irresponsibility by diluting causal attribution. (+5 more)
• SEED: Could ground an essay on how networked/diffused agency in finance, tech, and war all operate by the same ‘fabrication of irresponsibility’ template — junk bonds meeting killer robots.

Broader Connections

• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good #qualifies (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 453