Drone operators experience home and warzone as simultaneous parallel universes

Evidence

Another operator, describing the collision between family life at home and the violence of war at the office, and his own constant efforts to maintain a mental separation between the two spheres, explains: “Sometimes it’s hard to keep switching on and off. Back and forth. It’s like living in two places at the same time. Parallel universes… . It was enough to make a Predator pilot schizophrenic.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 409

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how drones transform the psychic and physical space-time of warfare. — connects to: Drone operators live with two stacked presences rather than mistaking one for the other.; Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 827; Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1016 (+4 more)

Related

• Drone operators live with two stacked presences rather than mistaking one for the other. (similarity 0.89)
• Drone technology produces a combined morale-buffering effect on operators (similarity 0.85)
• Drone psychopathology lies in produced compartmentalization, not operator trauma (similarity 0.83)
• Drone design produces a strong moral buffering effect on operators (similarity 0.82)
• Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. (similarity 0.82)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.81)
• Drone operations constitute a pure case of perpetration-induced traumatic stress. (similarity 0.81)
• Drone technology produces a strong moral buffering effect that offsets visual proximity to victims. (similarity 0.79)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.79)
• Drone warfare pits unburdened machines against bodies bound by physical limits. (similarity 0.78)
• The psychological effect of drone killing on operators remains empirically unresolved. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Drone design produces a strong moral buffering effect on operators #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 407
• Drone technology produces a combined morale-buffering effect on operators #expands (0.60)
• Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. #expands (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1016
• Drone psychopathology lies in produced compartmentalization, not operator trauma #expands (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 427
• Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields #expands (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 827
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace #expands (0.45) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1