Drone tele-technology is engineered to be nonreciprocal in co-presence

Evidence

The particular design of tele-technological devices determines the forms of co-presence that are possible. These devices also make it possible to introduce hitherto unknown reconfigurations into the structures of experience. How do they do this? Mainly in two ways. First, the tele-technological devices can “filter” the dimensions of co-presence that they retransmit. They can sort through the immediate richness of the phenomenal assortment and select only certain aspects of it. For example, they can provide nothing but an image, or nothing but a sound. However, if equipped with adequate receivers at the other end of the line, they can add to the gamut of our sensorial capacities a dimension that was not available when working solely with a human body (for example, infra-red vision). It all depends on the technical choices available. Second, these devices can choose from among these various dimensions in order to bestow upon the co-presence a structure that is either more or less reciprocal, ranging from complete unilaterality to full reciprocity. Tele-communication devices generally adopt structures of a reciprocal nature, but that is by no means a necessity. Again, it is a matter of a decision on the design of the tele-technological device. The structural choices for the devices used by drones are, on the contrary, of a nonreciprocal nature. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 955

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s concern about how drone technology reconfigures psychic and moral space-time. — connects to: Drone operators live with two stacked presences rather than mistaking one for the other.; Tele-technologies make non-reciprocal forms of co-presence possible, necessary, or impossible — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 954; Co-presence can exist without co-localization, a break enabled by tele-technologies. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 946 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 955

Related

• Drone operators live with two stacked presences rather than mistaking one for the other. (similarity 0.91)
• Tele-technologies make non-reciprocal forms of co-presence possible, necessary, or impossible (similarity 0.87)
• A tele-operator’s two presences are layered, so neither fully effaces the other. (similarity 0.86)
• Tele-operators experience a reversible shift of viewpoint without being deceived about their location. (similarity 0.84)
• Co-presence can be unilateral and nonreciprocal, needing only one term in range. (similarity 0.81)
• Co-presence can exist without co-localization, a break enabled by tele-technologies. (similarity 0.81)
• Co-presence between attacker and target need not be reciprocal (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Tele-technologies make non-reciprocal forms of co-presence possible, necessary, or impossible #exemplifies (0.85) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 954
• Co-presence can exist without co-localization, a break enabled by tele-technologies. #expands (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 946