Drone killing is reduced to clicking on tiny on-screen figures

Evidence

Here, though, the act of killing is in effect reduced to positioning the pointer or arrow on little “actionable images,” tiny figures that have taken the place of the old flesh-and-blood body of the enemy. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 396

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Faceless blurry drone imagery reduces moral resistance to killing — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 404; Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1016; Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones

Related

• Faceless blurry drone imagery reduces moral resistance to killing (similarity 0.91)
• Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. (similarity 0.86)
• Drone technology produces a strong moral buffering effect that offsets visual proximity to victims. (similarity 0.86)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.85)
• Drones are less precise than rifles and grenades at discriminating targets. (similarity 0.84)
• Drone surveillance transforms the panopticon from a punishing to an annihilating gaze. (similarity 0.84)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.84)
• Drone targeting hinged on remote visual guesses about sex and combatant status (similarity 0.83)
• Drone operators see strikes in vivid detail, overturning the distancing logic (similarity 0.83)
• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones (similarity 0.83)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.83)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.82)
• Drone technology produces a combined morale-buffering effect on operators (similarity 0.82)
• Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range (similarity 0.82)
• Killing with a graphic view is reframed as an act of courage (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. #expands (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1016
• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones #exemplifies (0.70)