Dronization aims to replace soldier bodies with mechanical agents.

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

A human drone is thus invented: a man, remotely controlled by others, who can be blown up at any moment, thanks to a long-distance detonating device. The irony is that commanders in the opposite camp might, thanks to the video cameras installed on the helmets of their own soldiers, be watching as some individual approaches and makes suspicious gestures. From the snow that simultaneously covers their respective screens, those on both sides will instantly know that their men have perished. Once this stage is reached, the next step in perfecting the art of assassination is to do without the man carrying the bomb: move on from a dronized partisan to, quite simply, a drone. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 306 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents.; Dronization aims to build a bodiless state force of pure machines — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 700; dronization of soldiers was a precondition for the pure drone — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 306

Related

• Dronization aims to build a bodiless state force of pure machines (similarity 0.96)
• dronization of soldiers was a precondition for the pure drone (similarity 0.93)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.87)
• Dronization trades the state’s social branch for its armed branch. (similarity 0.87)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.82)
• The drone resolved a centuries-old contradiction in the theory of state sovereignty over war (similarity 0.81)
• Present-day drones combine remote control and autonomous piloting. (similarity 0.81)
• The Pentagon aims for drones to exert lethal force without human control (similarity 0.81)
• Remote-controlled machines were proposed as a third option beyond protected men or autonomous machines (similarity 0.81)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. (similarity 0.80)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.80)
• The suicide weapon and the drone emerged together, not in sequence (similarity 0.80)
• Substituting capital for soldiers gives the state social autonomy (similarity 0.80)
• Drone dominance of warfare is not an inexorable historical fate (similarity 0.80)
• Drone missiles have larger lethal radii than conventional infantry weapons (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Dronization aims to build a bodiless state force of pure machines #expands (0.85) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 700
• dronization of soldiers was a precondition for the pure drone #qualifies (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 306