This is a live project by Josh Begley. The Twitter stream below is continually being updated.
Josh Begley, maker of the drone app that Apple rejected, has been tweeting every American drone strike since 2002 on Twitter @dronestream. The project, which began on Dec 11th and was supposed to last only 10 minutes, is now on its 6th day and counting.
*Below is a incomplete reading list, in no particular order. We will be updating it.
Select media reports on the project:
Tweeting the US Drone War | Al-Jazeera
The NYU Student Every Reported Drone Strike Has Revealed a Disturbing Trend | Business Insider
History the People | Daily Beast
One Man is Now Tweeting Every U.S. Drone Strike Known to Man | Atlantic Wire
Links on drones and the “war on terror”:
A Brief History of Drones | John Sifton | The Nation | Feb 07, 2012
Drones: A Photo History | Foreign Policy | Feb 27, 2012
Drone strikes’ cases| Reprieve (a UK based human rights firm)
The Secret History of Boeing’s Killer Drone | David Axe | Wired | Jun 06, 20122
The Woes of an American Drone Operator | Nicola Abe | Der Spiegel | Dec 14, 2012
Fighting Back the CIA Drone War | Muhammad Idrees Ahmad | Al Jazeera | Jul 30, 2011
Eye of the Drone | Harper’s Magazine | Jun 2012
Louder than Bombs | Madiha R. Tahir | The New Inquiry | Jul 16, 2012
Books:
Waging War in Waziristan | Adam M. Roe
Predator: The Remote-Control Air War over Iraq and Afghanistan: A Pilot’s Story | Matt J. Martin and Charles W. Sasser
Reading Humanitarian Intervention | Anne Orford
The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality | Nicholas Mirzoeff
Academic articles:
The Everywhere War | Derek Gregory | The Geographical Journal 177 | Sept 2011
Tarzan White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy Before and After the Airplane | Aaron Bady | American Literature Vol. 83, No. 2 | Jun 2011
Differential News Framing of Unmanned Aerial Drones | Timothy Jones, Penelope Sheets, Charles Rowling | APSA 2011
From a view to a kill: Drones and late modern war | Derek Gregory | Theory, culture and society 28 (7-8) | 2011
The Spatial Politics of Drone Warfare | a PhD dissertation | 2011
Ontologies of the Wayward Drone | Jordan Crandall | CTheory | Nov 2011
