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- Title
REDEPLOYING THE UAV: DEMOCRATIZATION, PRIVATIZATION, AND COMMODIFICATION OF THE "TRANSHUMANIST" DRONE STARE IN THE CONSUMER MARKET.
- Authors
Knox, Bradly Allen
- Abstract
Our contemporary understanding of unmanned aerial vehicles lacks critical analysis in how they are deployed in the consumer market. This project analyzes three drone websites that demonstrate a logical progression of what is termed as the consumer market assemblage (i.e., democratization, privatization, and commodification). Through these frames respectively, this manuscript teases out arguments for understanding drones as a transhumanist liminality: the space between operator and drone. As evidence shows, the liminal space between operator and drone incrementally decreases to the point of near-synonymy of human and drone. With this rearticulating of the consumer drone, society might better understand the current relational trajectory between humans and aerial technology.
- Subjects
DRONE aircraft; WEBSITES; CONSUMERS
- Publication
Technoculture: An Online Journal of Technology in Society, 2017, Vol 7, p1
- ISSN
1938-0526
- Publication type
Article