Adam Haley, PhD

CONFERENCE TALK: The Fantastical Unmanned: Techne, Genre, and the (Super)Naturalized Drone

Does reorienting our thought away from the individual drone apparatus and toward the regime of drones (a collective force of omnipotence and omnipresence, both within and above our natural surroundings) open up new avenues of thinking about life under the aegis of the drone? In other words, is one drone a science-fictional technology, but a fleet of drones a fantastical monster—and if so, is this the monster most emblematic of the present?

CONFERENCE TALK: Distant Bodies and the Proximities of Drone Subjectivity

What is it to inhabit a body in relation to other bodies under the aegis of the drone, on whose indispensability even the figureheads of nation-state and corporation can agree? How might our thinking of the socius as technologically, politically, and economically mediated be informed by the figure of the drone? How does the ascendency, figuratively and literally, of drone technology condition both distance as such and the human experience of empathy, attention, and power across distance?