{"product_id":"the-sensorium-of-the-drone-and-communities-isbn-9780262545907","title":"The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities","description":"\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive overview of how civilian drones sense the world and how they build the aesthetic imaginaries of our communities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrone 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Sensorium of the Drone and Communities\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Sensorium of the Drone and Communities\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together key ideas in technology studies, studies of aerial views, visual and aesthetic studies, posthuman sensing, machine–human interaction, and communities, \u003ci\u003eThe Sensorium of the Drone and Communities\u003c\/i\u003e sheds a welcome and necessary light on this technology’s creative potential as well as its dangers and risks.Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003ePart I The Sensorium of the Drone\u003cbr\u003e1 The Sensorial Experience of the Drone and Communities 17\u003cbr\u003ePart II The Body\u003cbr\u003e2 Embodied Sensing and Cyborg Communities 37\u003cbr\u003e3 Facial Sensing and Datafied Communities 67\u003cbr\u003ePart III The Earth\u003cbr\u003e4 Flattened Sensing and Planetary Communities 93\u003cbr\u003e5 Volumetric Sensing and Postcarbon Communities 121\u003cbr\u003ePart IV The Nonhuman \u003cbr\u003e6 Swarm Sensing and Multitude Communities 147\u003cbr\u003e7 Viral Sensing and Pandemic Communities 171\u003cbr\u003eConclusion 195\u003cbr\u003eAfterword 203\u003cbr\u003eNotes 207\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 253\u003cbr\u003eIndex 283“Maurer’s deep and fruitful analysis of drones sets the standards for critical humanities inquiry into their artistic uses, offering a fundamental contribution about aesthetics, sensing, and the communities formed through sensorial capacities beyond the human.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jussi Parikka, Professor, Aarhus University; author of \u003ci\u003eInsect Media \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOperational Images\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this highly imaginative study, Kathrin Maurer invites readers to see beyond the military violence of drone technology, envisioning human-machine communities of shared sensory experience outside the dominance of the techno-gaze.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Joanna Zylinska, Professor of Media Philosophy and Critical Digital Practice, King’s College London; author of \u003ci\u003eNonhuman Photography\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Perception Machine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“By probing the sensory envelope of human-machine assemblages, Maurer carves out a compelling narrative of discourse, desire, and multisensory community-building between nonmilitary drones and their human operators – a new and potentially liberatory aesthetic built from out-of-body sensing and autonomous flight.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Caroline A. Jones, Professor of Art History, MIT Department of Architecture; Director, MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative; editor of \u003ci\u003eSensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eKathrin 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.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299783364837,"sku":"NP9780262545907","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545907.jpg?v=1767741446","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-sensorium-of-the-drone-and-communities-isbn-9780262545907","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}