The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities

Kathrin Maurer

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MIT Press
07 November 2023

Theory of art; Encyclopaedias & reference works; Media studies; Computer vision

"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 drone's 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 technology's creative potential as well as its dangers and risks."

By: Kathrin Maurer
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 374g
ISBN: 9780262545907
ISBN 10: 026254590X
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 07 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"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."

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The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities

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