Edward Fairhead
Biographic Data
| ID | 668833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Fairhead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Fairhead |
| SIGNATURE | FAIRHEAD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7725-7459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Supplanting the spectacle of sacrifice
During the late modern era, Western states have consistently adorned the soldier’s death in war as a sacrifice made for the preservation of the body politic. Against this heritage of the spectacle of sacrifice, this article argues that the representation of the drone pilot configures what the author calls an anti-spectacle of the safe military body. He traces the nexus between the body politic and its corporeal military representative, and coaxes…
Carl Schmitt’s politics in the age of drone strikes
When George Bush declared to his global audience that they were either ‘with us or against us’, he appeared to directly invoke the Schmittian antithesis of friend vs. enemy. Against the historical backdrop of Bush’s war on terror, and the scholarly attention his foreign policy received in relation to Carl Schmitt’s concept of the political, this paper examines whether the Obama administration’s targeted killing regime has marked a departure from …
Supplanting the spectacle of sacrifice
During the late modern era, Western states have consistently adorned the soldier’s death in war as a sacrifice made for the preservation of the body politic. Against this heritage of the spectacle of sacrifice, this article argues that the representation of the drone pilot configures what the author calls an anti-spectacle of the safe military body. He traces the nexus between the body politic and its corporeal military representative, and coaxes…
Carl Schmitt’s politics in the age of drone strikes
When George Bush declared to his global audience that they were either ‘with us or against us’, he appeared to directly invoke the Schmittian antithesis of friend vs. enemy. Against the historical backdrop of Bush’s war on terror, and the scholarly attention his foreign policy received in relation to Carl Schmitt’s concept of the political, this paper examines whether the Obama administration’s targeted killing regime has marked a departure from …
Supplanting the spectacle of sacrifice
During the late modern era, Western states have consistently adorned the soldier’s death in war as a sacrifice made for the preservation of the body politic. Against this heritage of the spectacle of sacrifice, this article argues that the representation of the drone pilot configures what the author calls an anti-spectacle of the safe military body. He traces the nexus between the body politic and its corporeal military representative, and coaxes…
Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Adversary (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Antithesis (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Body politic (1 work) · Computer security (1 work)