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- Title
Project Pigeon: Rendering the War Animal through Optical Technology.
- Authors
Schultz-Figueroa, Benjamin
- Abstract
This article analyzes the multiple uses of film in B. F. Skinner's classified World War II research into pigeon-guided missiles, arguing that they illustrate an ongoing transformation in the deployment of autonomous nonhuman vision on the battlefield. It concludes that the Project Pigeon films worked to both reimagine and reshape what a combatant could be, no longer dependent on a decision-making human actor but on a complex array of visual interactions between a hybrid organism or device and its environment.
- Subjects
SKINNER, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-1990; WORLD War II; BATTLEFIELDS; COMBATANTS &; noncombatants (International law); GUIDED missiles; MOTION pictures
- Publication
JCMS: Journal of Cinema & Media Studies, 2019, Vol 58, Issue 4, p92
- ISSN
2578-4900
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2019.0059