Nixon, M;
(2014)
Louise Lawler: No Drones.
October
, 147
pp. 20-37.
10.1162/octo_a_00164.
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Abstract
Hitler deployed the first pilot-less flying bombs, the doodlebugs, as weapons of terror over London. “The drone of the planes,” Virginia Woolf related, is “like the sawing of a branch overhead. Round and round it goes, sawing and sawing.” It falls to the civilian under aerial attack to “fight with the mind” by “thinking against the current, not with it.” Thinking in darkness, thinking in bed, thinking with the unconscious—Woolf defends the supposedly “futile activity of idea-making” as a counterpoint to the drone of war.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Louise Lawler: No Drones |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1162/octo_a_00164 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1162/OCTO_a_00164 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History of Art |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10068332 |
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