Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zulaika, Joseba

Titel

Hellfire from Paradise Ranch : on the front lines of drone warfare

Ort / Verlag

Oakland, California : University of California Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2020]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• Prologue : Slaughterhouse-359 -- The Real : Home of the Hunters -- Fantasy and the Art of Drone Assassination -- Wars Returning from the Future -- Trauma : The Killer as Voyeur -- Resistance : A Harsh and Dreadful Love -- Epilogue.
• "Hellfire from Paradise Ranch deals with drone warfare as manhunting carried out via satellite from Creech AFB near Las Vegas. It examines the layers of fantasy on which counterterrorism and its self-sustaining logic are grounded, in addition to the trauma endured by drone operators when, due to their visual intimacy with their victims, that fantasy collapses. The book situates the resistance to drone killings in the same apocalyptic Nevada desert where nuclear testing, pacifist militancy, and Shoshone tradition overlap. The Epilogue, 'Obama's Troy,' dwells on the tragic error of a good president unable to resist the deceptions of the counterterror state"--