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Drone Justice: Witnessing the Anthropocene by Dr Adam Fish<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

There is a lot of propaganda around drones being \u201cdisruptive\u201d technologies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I have been empirically testing the disruptive potentials of drone practices through many diverse contexts throughout the world. Between 2015 to just a few days ago I\u2019ve been conducting participatory and ethnographic fieldwork with drone operators, inventors, entrepreneurs, fanatics, artists, and activists in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Australia, the US\u2014including Los Angeles and Native America\u2014and the North Atlantic\u2014Iceland, Scotland, Denmark, and the UK trying to see how this flying Turing machine is used in acts of political and economic discovery. I\u2019ve documented 10 potential candidates for drone justice. They cover the issues of surveillance, privacy, information, humanitarianism, ecological, scientific, mammalian, economic, national, and aesthetic. Here is a quick introduction followed by one key question before a brief conclusion.<\/p>\n

Beyond the hype, my question is this: Is the drone practice involved in disruptive justice\u2014actual challenges to capitalist incumbencies, extractive hegemonies, and exploitative inequalities\u2014or is it a discursive and ideological \u201cdisruption\u201d\u2014effective but first for capital creation.<\/p>\n

The answers to this question provide evidence for or against the legitimacy of drone justice.<\/p>\n

10 Types of Drone Justice <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Surveillance Justice<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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The Dakota Access Pipeline bringing oil from Canada through the United States including several Native American reservations and sensitive environments, including under the Missouri River, and contributing to climate change. In response emerged an alliance of activists, environmentalists, and Native Americans in the making of the effective up to the point of Trump of stopping this pipeline.<\/p>\n

In what ways does the drone used by research participant Myron Dewey at the Dakota Access Pipeline protest at Standing Rock constitute a more than discursive use of drones and a form of counter-surveillance? Will the rights of journalists and activists to use drones to counter-surveil continue or will laws be modified to make illegal such counter-surveillance practices?<\/p>\n

Privacy Justice:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Stop LAPD Spying Coalition has a No Drones! Project to stop the violent Los Angeles Police Department from acquiring tax-paid drones for activist and ethnic surveillance.<\/p>\n

The question here is can continually racially profiled communities reject surveillance and find drone justice through counter-surveillance and non-discursive understandings of drones\u2019 potentials?<\/p>\n

Humanitarian Justice:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Indonesian company Aeroterrscan volunteered its time and technology to monitor the Agung volcano and measure volcanic CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n

Does this kind of experiment featuring a collaboration between the USGS, a private drone company in Indonesia, and the Indonesian government represent more than an opportunity to test prototypes for later commercialisation? How would this volcanic CO2 data be used in climate change denialism?<\/p>\n

Informational Justice:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Facebook Aquila, and Google Loon, are flying internet delivery platforms for internet delivery around the world. There are also domestic solution such as Helion in Indonesia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Does Google Loon, Facebook Aquila represent an imperial colonization of national airspace and of electromagnetic spectrum? Does a domestic alternative such as Helion, in Indonesia represent a nationalistic and viable alternative?<\/p>\n

Scientific Justice:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Using historical satellite and drone images we have mapped coral bleaching in north Sulawasi, Indonesia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

How does higher resolution images, corroborated with longitudinal satellite imagery and other data signals of coral bleaching, corroborate in public sphere climate change debate and\/or denialism?<\/p>\n

Aesthetic Justice: <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n