dronization of soldiers was a precondition for the pure drone

Evidence

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

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the reader’s interest in how the drone reshaped the psychic/moral space of war — the human bomb’s remote-control point of view prefigures the operator’s screen. — connects to: Dronization aims to replace soldier bodies with mechanical agents.; The suicide weapon and the drone emerged together, not in sequence — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 313; Dronization aims to build a bodiless state force of pure machines — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 700
• SEED: Angle: tracing the conceptual genealogy from remote-controlled suicide vests to the pilotless assassination drone as a single evolving logic of removing risk from the kill decision.

Related

• Dronization aims to replace soldier bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.93)
• Dronization aims to build a bodiless state force of pure machines (similarity 0.89)
• The suicide weapon and the drone emerged together, not in sequence (similarity 0.85)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.85)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.83)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.82)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.82)
• Remote-controlled machines were proposed as a third option beyond protected men or autonomous machines (similarity 0.82)
• Drone missiles have larger lethal radii than conventional infantry weapons (similarity 0.82)
• The Pentagon aims for drones to exert lethal force without human control (similarity 0.82)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.81)
• Drones transformed from surveillance eyes into weapons almost by chance. (similarity 0.81)
• Drones resolve the guerrilla problem by depriving insurgents of any target to attack. (similarity 0.81)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. (similarity 0.81)
• Present-day drones combine remote control and autonomous piloting. (similarity 0.81)