Military technologies are later reintroduced to organize civil society

Evidence

This is what Marx called a scenario of “war [being] developed earlier than peace”: certain social and economic relations are initially developed for military purposes, and only later are they reintroduced and developed in order to function ordinarily within civil society. The army serves as a center of invention, a laboratory of experimentation for new political technologies. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 640

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly addresses the reader’s query about how drone warfare establishes new norms that bleed into peacetime. — connects to: Military and prison industrial complexes are symbiotic, sharing technologies; Politics inherited the military model as a means of preventing civil disorder — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 252

Broader Connections