Drone dominance of warfare is not an inexorable historical fate

Evidence

Had Hegel’s philosophy of history embraced this age, Hitler’s robot-bombs would have found their place … as one of the selected empirical facts by which the state of the world-spirit manifests itself directly in symbols. Like fascism itself, the robots career without a subject. Like it, they combine utmost technical perfection with total blindness. And like it, they arouse mortal terror and are wholly futile. “I have seen the world-spirit,” not on horseback, but on wings and without a head, and that refutes, at the same stroke, Hegel’s philosophy of history. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 645 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Unmanned weapons render obsolete any teleological philosophy of history — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 645; War on Terror strengthened rather than replaced the military industrial complex — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 230; AI development is not an inevitable process dictated by technology or necessity. — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 373 (+3 more)

Related

• Unmanned weapons render obsolete any teleological philosophy of history (similarity 0.94)
• Remote-controlled machines were proposed as a third option beyond protected men or autonomous machines (similarity 0.82)
• The drone resolved a centuries-old contradiction in the theory of state sovereignty over war (similarity 0.82)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.82)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.81)
• Drone warfare pits unburdened machines against bodies bound by physical limits. (similarity 0.81)
• Weapons constitute the essence of combatants, not mere instruments (similarity 0.81)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. (similarity 0.80)
• Drone warfare emerged from political weakness of empire, not technological strength. (similarity 0.80)
• Dronization aims to replace soldier bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.80)
• dronization of soldiers was a precondition for the pure drone (similarity 0.79)
• Historical continuity of remote killing does not justify drones (similarity 0.79)
• Drones centralize kill authority upward into hierarchy rather than handing control to machines (similarity 0.79)
• The suicide weapon and the drone emerged together, not in sequence (similarity 0.79)
• Dronization aims to build a bodiless state force of pure machines (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Unmanned weapons render obsolete any teleological philosophy of history #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 645