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  • Chapter 16 - War and Drones

  • from Part III - Emerging Concepts
  • Edited by Anders Engberg-Pedersen, University of Southern Denmark, Neil Ramsey, University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • Book:
    War and Literary Studies
    Published online:
    15 January 2023
    Print publication:
    05 January 2023, pp 261-277

  • Summary

    This chapter explores literary and cinematic works that capture the emergence of technogenic life-forms in war zones through the artificial vision of the drone: that terror-inducing aerial surveillance apparatus and killing machine that is planetary in its reach and catastrophic in its impact. By technogenic life-forms, I mean machinic abstractions of the organic human form that are available for manipulation, expulsion, and annihilation. These life-forms are the product of a scalar transformation of ordinary human vision through the composite digital infrastructure of the drone. The aesthetic repertoire of the chapter ranges from novels such as Richard Clark’s The Sting of the Drone (2014) and Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019), films such as Madiha Tahir’s Wounds of Waziristan (2013) and Atef Abu Saif’s war diary The Drone Eats with Me (2016).

  • New methods in artificial vision by using entropies of deterministic functions*

  • Guy Jumarie
  • Journal:
    Robotica / Volume 10 / Issue 2 / March 1992
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 March 2009, pp. 105-112

  • The purpose of this paper is to show how one can use entropies of deterministic functions (as previously defined by the author) in order to analyze some questions related to machine vision. The main advantage of this approach is that it provides information theoretic methods for solving problems which basically do not refer to probability distributions. After a short qualitative background on deterministic functions, one applies this theory to edge finding, image segmentation, transfer of information defined by brightness functions, and image processing. Some more theoretical details on the entropies of deterministic functions are given in the appendix.