The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities by Kathrin Maurer (English) Paperback

Description: The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities by Kathrin Maurer A comprehensive overview of how civilian drones sense the world and how they build the aesthetic imaginaries of our communities.A comprehensive overview of how civilian drones sense the world and how they build the aesthetic imaginaries of our communities.Drone technology has garnered critical attention across many fields, from engineering to the humanities. While the first wave of drone scholarship was key in initiating the debate on drones, it also privileged the idea of the "scopic regime"-a militarized regime of hypervisuality-in its analyses of the connection between vision and power. The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities broadens the drones spectrum of perception by acknowledging its creative, life-affirming possibility with the notion of the sensorium. The sensorium of the drone is a multimedia, synesthetic sensing assemblage in which the human agent is enmeshed with the drone. Drone sensoria can sense in many more ways than the scopic regime-with sound, touch, smell, temperature, and movement.In The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities, Kathrin Maurer shows how drone sensoria can change our understanding of human communities by constructing imaginaries of social communities based on decentralized and fluid sensing processes. Maurer takes an aesthetic approach to technology, working with two understandings of aesthetics. One understanding refers to aesthetics as a way of experiencing, and it explores how the drone-human assemblage perceives the world. The other refers to aesthetic mimetic representation, and focuses on how aesthetic drone imaginaries in literature, popular culture, visual arts, and films negotiate the sensorial technology of the drone.Bringing together key ideas in technology studies, studies of aerial views, visual and aesthetic studies, posthuman sensing, machine-human interaction, and communities, The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities sheds a welcome and necessary light on this technologys creative potential as well as its dangers and risks. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Kathrin Maurer is Professor of Humanities and Technology at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). She is the leader of the Center for Culture and Technology and the research cluster "Drone Imaginaries and Communities" funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1Part I The Sensorium of the Drone1 The Sensorial Experience of the Drone and Communities 17Part II The Body2 Embodied Sensing and Cyborg Communities 373 Facial Sensing and Datafied Communities 67Part III The Earth4 Flattened Sensing and Planetary Communities 935 Volumetric Sensing and Postcarbon Communities 121Part IV The Nonhuman 6 Swarm Sensing and Multitude Communities 1477 Viral Sensing and Pandemic Communities 171Conclusion 195Afterword 203Notes 207Bibliography 253Index 283 Details ISBN026254590X Author Kathrin Maurer Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 026254590X ISBN-13 9780262545907 Format Paperback Publisher MIT Press Ltd Publication Date 2023-10-03 Imprint MIT Press Country of Publication United States Illustrations 29 B&W ILLUS. AU Release Date 2023-10-03 NZ Release Date 2023-10-03 US Release Date 2023-10-03 UK Release Date 2023-10-03 Pages 304 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145263552;

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