Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects

Figures and Tables ix

Series Editors’ Preface x

Acknowledgements xi

1 Introduction 1

Prologue 1

Overview 6

Aerial Life 8

Powering Up Aerial Geographies 13

The Organization of the Book 21

Part One Becoming Aerial 23

2 Birth of the Aerial Body 25

Introduction 25

Beginnings 28

‘Handsome Is as Handsome Does’: Disassembling the Aerial Body 30

The Flesh of the Aerial Youth 41

Simulation 45

Conclusion 52

3 The Projection and Performance of Airspace 54

Introduction 54

Building a Political Space: Identity, Boundedness and the Sanctity of Territory 57

Undoing Aerial Space: Post-nationalism and Projective Power 70

Conclusion 80

Part Two Governing Aerial Life 83

4 Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics 85

Introduction 85

Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Targeting, Administering and Managing Populations 86

Techniques of the Observer/Observed 103

Three-Dimensional Vision 109

Conclusion 113

5 Profiling Machines 114

Introduction 114

Imagining the Pilot/Passenger 117

Sorting 124

Modifying 132

Conclusion 144

Part Three Aerial Aggression 145

6 Aerial Environments 147

Introduction 147

The Emergence of a Target 149

Systems, Circulations and Ecological Warfare 161

Air Conditioning 170

Conclusion 177

7 Subjects under Siege 179

Warning 179

Introduction 181

The Anatomy of Panic 185

Imaginations and Urgencies 189

Vigilance and the Social as Circuit 191

Entrainment 198

Conclusion 205

8 Conclusion 206

Environments 207

Futures 208

Aerial Turns 209

Notes 211

Bibliography 228

Index 255