The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty.

Evidence

The invention of the armed drone has revealed not only a redoubtable weapon but also, simultaneously, something else, but without our noticing it and almost by mistake: namely, a technical solution to a fundamental tension that has put a strain on the theory and practice of political sovereignty ever since the seventeenth century. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 556

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier notes on sovereignty, protection, and obedience — the Hobbes/Schmitt protectorate logic that structures how citizen moral obligation to kill is framed. — connects to: Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies; The drone resolved a centuries-old contradiction in the theory of state sovereignty over war; The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 565 (+3 more)

Related

• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.96)
• The drone resolved a centuries-old contradiction in the theory of state sovereignty over war (similarity 0.94)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.92)
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace (similarity 0.88)
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity (similarity 0.86)
• Armed drone projects were framed as solving Vietnam’s political contradictions (similarity 0.85)
• Drone use lowers the threshold so violence becomes the default foreign policy option. (similarity 0.85)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.84)
• Low cost of drone warfare removes congressional restraint on military action (similarity 0.84)
• Drones’ necroethics embody a nationalism of self-preservation (similarity 0.84)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.83)
• Drone assassination reframes war as social defense through preventive security measures (similarity 0.83)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.83)
• Drone warfare leaves the mutual right to kill formally intact but substantively empty. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace #expands (0.50)
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity #expands (0.40)
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace #expands (0.40) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1