Toys for the Boys? Drones, Pleasure and Popular Culture in the Militarisation of Policing
Toys for the Boys? Drones, Pleasure and Popular Culture in the Militarisation of Policing
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2014
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M. Salter
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本文认为，为执法无人机提供的各种相互矛盾的理由是流行文化中明显的“武器迷恋”的症状。这种迷恋给无人机等军事技术注入了控制和统治的男性幻想，从而掩盖了无人机在犯罪控制和预防方面的实际局限性和伦理影响。通过将军国主义的乐趣与社会和经济秩序的重大转变联系起来，本文认为，反恐话语的作用是使准军事警务和新自由主义国家的军事化男性主体地位合法化。在这样的背景下，无人机成为一种倒退的“武器玩具”，将国家控制与技术超越融为一体。
This paper argues that the various and contradictory rationales offered for law enforcement drones are symptomatic of a ‘weapons fetish’ evident in popular culture. This fetishisation imbues military technology such as the drone with masculine fantasies of control and domination that obscure the practical limitations and ethical implications of drones for crime control and prevention. By linking the pleasures of militarism to crucial shifts in the social and economic order, the paper argues that counter-terrorism discourse functions to legitimate the militarised masculine subject positions of paramilitary policing specifically and the neoliberal state generally. In such a context, the drone features as a regressive ‘weapon-toy’ that fuses state control with technological transcendence.