Dronization aims to build a bodiless state force of pure machines

Evidence

The difference between these two vignettes heralds what is at stake politically in the dronization and robotization of the armed branches of the state. The dream is to construct a bodiless force, a political body without human organs, replacing the old regimented bodies of subjects by mechanical instruments that would, if possible, become its sole agents. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 700

Categorization

• XREF: This is the reader’s transformed ‘psychic, moral, and physical space and time’ — power without bodies. — connects to: Dronization aims to replace soldier bodies with mechanical agents.; dronization of soldiers was a precondition for the pure drone — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 306

Related

• Dronization aims to replace soldier bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.96)
• dronization of soldiers was a precondition for the pure drone (similarity 0.89)
• Dronization trades the state’s social branch for its armed branch. (similarity 0.87)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.83)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.80)
• State power requires mobilized bodies and collapses without them (similarity 0.80)
• Substituting capital for soldiers gives the state social autonomy (similarity 0.79)
• Without mobilized bodies there is no state power, only violence. (similarity 0.79)
• Drone dominance of warfare is not an inexorable historical fate (similarity 0.79)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. (similarity 0.79)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.79)
• The drone resolved a centuries-old contradiction in the theory of state sovereignty over war (similarity 0.79)
• Present-day drones combine remote control and autonomous piloting. (similarity 0.79)
• The Pentagon aims for drones to exert lethal force without human control (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• dronization of soldiers was a precondition for the pure drone #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 306