Drone Ethics Part 12: St George's Lance One of the key questions thrown up by the rise of drone warfare is how to persuade combatants to adhere to some kind of common norm on the limits of violence in conflict when one side has such an overwhelming advantage. In Drone Theory (2015) Gregoire Chamayou attempts to address
Microliberations Newsletter #1 May 2022: Beginnings Trying something new, a monthly newsletter sharing a few articles related to the impact of military technology on strategy, with a particular focus on ballistic missile defence in a UK context. I'll also feature more esoteric content coming from my interest in philosophy and books. In this month's digest: * Royal
Military Tech and Strategy Drone Ethics Part 11: Acephalic World Spirit As the V2 rockets fell on London in 1944 Theodor Adorno wrote, "I have seen the world-spirit," not on horse-back, but on wings and without a head". What this acephalic weltgeist harboured, Gregoire Chamayou argues in Drone Theory, was the total effacement of any identifiable subject that could be held
Philosophy Vile Bodies 'This study of the historical technologies of debasement calls for the creation of a political philosophy of scientific practice.'
Dopamine All the Way Down The physical and the mental are different but complementary forms of beauty.
Military Tech and Strategy Drone-Ethics This free pamphlet is my digest of Gregoire Chamayou's excellent 2015 book, Drone Theory.
Military Tech and Strategy Drone-Ethics Part 8 Drones and the Divine Right of Kings: Hobbes vs. Rousseau
Military Tech and Strategy Drone-Ethics part 7 ‘Depriving the Enemy of an Enemy’: Drones and the Guevarist Guerrilla
Military Tech and Strategy Drone-Ethics part 6 My Whole Body’s a Weapon: Milgram, Moral Buffering and the Phenomenology of Killing
Military Tech and Strategy Drone-Ethics part 5 Where Hegel Feared to Tread: Dialectics, Drones and the Sacrificial State
Military Tech and Strategy Drone-Ethics part 4 Thanatotactics: Jus in Bello, Clausewitz and the Death Pact
Philosophy Negative Capability and Nihilism as Nietzsche’s Artistic Leitmotif For Nietzsche, far from being the obvious state of existence, nihilism perhaps became an act of faith.
Philosophy Kant’s Project in the Critique of Pure Reason and its Implications for Scientific Theories Our minds are filled with concepts like space and time because they conferred a survival value to our ancestors.
Literature Art against the Cynics Reflections on Shaun Berke’s Winter and Summer: a memory of nature and culture
