Drone targeting echoes archaic wax-doll nailing practices

Evidence

What used to be a magical practice has been converted into a high-tech procedure. But perhaps the element of bewitching has not altogether disappeared. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 397

Categorization

• XREF: Chamayou compares drone targeting to witchcraft defixio; connects to the reader’s theme of the drone transforming moral and psychic space into something quasi-magical. — connects to: Drone imagery functions as targeting rather than representation — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 395; The word ‘drone’ originally named expendable, nongenuine target dummies — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 146
• SEED: Angle: the drone as technological re-enchantment of killing — how high-tech warfare revives archaic magical logic.

Related

• The word ‘drone’ originally named expendable, nongenuine target dummies (similarity 0.87)
• Drone imagery functions as targeting rather than representation (similarity 0.82)
• Drone targeting presumes guilt until innocence is proven posthumously. (similarity 0.81)
• Drones transformed from surveillance eyes into weapons almost by chance. (similarity 0.81)
• Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. (similarity 0.81)
• Drone killing is reduced to clicking on tiny on-screen figures (similarity 0.80)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.80)
• Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range (similarity 0.80)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.80)
• Drones resolve the guerrilla problem by depriving insurgents of any target to attack. (similarity 0.80)
• Drones evolved from surveillance eyes into lethal hunter-killer weapons. (similarity 0.79)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.79)
• Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts. (similarity 0.79)
• Drones are less precise than rifles and grenades at discriminating targets. (similarity 0.79)
• Zworykin discovered the drone formula by coupling television with remote-controlled flight (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The word ‘drone’ originally named expendable, nongenuine target dummies #corroborates (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 146