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The Terror Wars Drone On…Or Don’t They?

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Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars

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In the Chap. 8, Hayes solidifies a map of the ways that rhetorical studies expands in useful ways with the incorporation of rhetoricoviolence as a rhetorical category and rhetorical cartography as a method. Embracing a rhetorical circulation model, Hayes then moves on to examine technologies of governance functioning within the US drone program, as well as through other outlets. The chapter concludes with a lengthy set of examinations of resistive subjects within the terror wars, from Rand Paul to creator of drone tracking application Josh Begley to various artists speaking to the rhetoricoviolence within the terror wars and the US drone program. Hayes calls for an awakening in performing additional rhetorical cartographies to best understand transnational empire in the twenty-first century and beyond.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Catherine Chaput, “Rhetorical Circulation in Late Capitalism,” 6.

  2. 2.

    Ibid., 20.

  3. 3.

    Ibid., 19-20.

  4. 4.

    J.B. Harley, “Deconstructing the Map.”

  5. 5.

    Damien Fletcher, “Inside the bizarre world of Colonel Gaddafi” in The Daily Mirror, UK edition, February 21, 2011, retrieved May 12, 2011 at http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/02/21/inside-the-bizarre-world-of-colonel-gaddafi-115875-22938320/.

  6. 6.

    CNN Interview Segment, March 23, 2011. Posted at http://thebuzzcincy.com/tom-joyner- morning-show/tomjoynerradio/the-mind-of-muammar-gaddafi/.

  7. 7.

    Jasbir K. Puar & Amit S. Rai, “Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorist and the Production of Docile Patriots,” Social Text 20, no. 3 (Fall 2002), 117.

  8. 8.

    Puar and Rai, “Monster, Terrorist, Fag,” 119.

  9. 9.

    Matthew Segal, quoted in the Los Angeles Times article of May 15, 2011. Retrieved at http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-fehrman-millenials-20110515,0,2529519.story.

  10. 10.

    Beth Sullivan, “If you had a chance to view the bin Laden photos, would you?” in Fox News Politics Blog, May 15, 2011, retrieved at http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/05/15/if-you-had-chance-view-bin-laden-photos- would-you.

  11. 11.

    Ed O’Keefe and Aaron Blake, “Rand Paul launches taking filibuster against John Brennan,” The Washington Post, March 6, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/06/rand-paul-begins-talking-filibuster-against-john-brennan/.

  12. 12.

    Eric Holder quoted in original scan of US Attorney General memo to Rand Paul in Townhall.com, March 7, 2013, http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2013/03/07/rand- paul-is-satisfied-with-eric-holders-slippery-answer--you-shouldnt-be-n1528424.

  13. 13.

    Office of Senator Rand Paul press release. “White House issues answer after Senator’s 13- hour speech,” March 7, 2013, http://www.paul.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=735.

  14. 14.

    Eric Holder quoted in original scan of Attorney General memo to Rand Paul on Paul’s website, March 4, 2013, http://www.paul.senate.gov/files/documents/BrennanHolderResponse.pdf.

  15. 15.

    All quotes from the Brenna confirmation hearing in this chapter are taken from the official posted transcript compiled by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, February 7, 2013, http://intelligence.senate.gov/130207/transcript.pdf.

  16. 16.

    Surin, Freedom Not Yet, 22.

  17. 17.

    Michael Hardt, “The Withering of Civil Society” in Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture, eds. Eleanor Kaufman and Kevin Jon Heller (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), 30.

  18. 18.

    Jodi Dean, Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009), 22.

  19. 19.

    Dean, Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies, 23.

  20. 20.

    Christine Harold, OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), xxi.

  21. 21.

    J.K. Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), 51. J.K. Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), 51.

  22. 22.

    Asher J. Kohn, “Shura City: An Architectural Defense from Drones,” Chapati Mystery, January 28, 2013, http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/imperial_watch/drone_city.html.

  23. 23.

    Opening page, “CITY OF DRONES,” http://cityofdrones.io.

  24. 24.

    Ibid.

  25. 25.

    Opening page, “barbican: LOOP>>60Hz,” September 12-13, 2014, http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=16737.

  26. 26.

    Opening page, “A giant art installation targets predator drone operators,” http://notabugsplat.com.

  27. 27.

    Rob Williams, “Giant ‘Not A Bug Splat’ art installation takes aim at Pakistan’s predator drone operators,” April 8, 2014, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/giant- not-a-bug-splat-art-installation-takes-aim-at-pakistans-predator-drone-operators- 9246768.html.

  28. 28.

    Simon Rogers, “Drone Attacks in Pakistan Mapped,” The Guardian, August, 2, 2012, http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2012/aug/02/drone-attacks- pakistan-map.

  29. 29.

    Nick Wingfield, “Apple Rejects App Tracking Drone Strikes,” Bits Blog: The New York Times, August 30, 2012, http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/apple-rejects-app- tracking-drone-strikes/?_r=1.

  30. 30.

    Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, “After 5 Rejections, Apple Accepts App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes,” Mashable, February 7, 2014, http://mashable.com/2014/02/07/apple-app- tracks-drone-strikes/.

  31. 31.

    Franceschi-Bicchierai, “After 5 Rejections, Apple Accepts App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes.”

  32. 32.

    Josh Begley, Twitter post, December 10, 2012, https://twitter.com/dronestream.

  33. 33.

    Josh Begley, Twitter post, December 11, 2012, https://twitter.com/dronestream.

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Hayes, H.A. (2016). The Terror Wars Drone On…Or Don’t They?. In: Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars. Rhetoric, Politics and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48099-6_8

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