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Drone Visions: A Brief Cyberpunk History of Killing Machines (Hyperbole Books Digital) Kindle Edition

by Naief Yehya (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Advance Word on Hyperbole Books's DRONE VISIONS...

"'Is our future a thing of the past?' asks a character in Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera’s sci-fi premonition of neuro-jacked Mexicans who toil in maquiladoras of the mind. In Drone Visions, the Mexican film critic Naief Yehya excavates the nightmare logic of our times in the trash-heaps of Hollywood’s tomorrows. Reading between the frames of canonical cyberpunk texts like Blade Runner, Alien, and The Terminator; “video-game” footage of smart-bomb strikes in the Gulf War; and documentary interviews with cubicle warriors who call their long-distance kills 'bugsplats,' Yehya tracks the predatory technologies that have stalked us in our dreams ever since Frankenstein."

Mark Dery, cultural critic, author of I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts

“Drone Visions demands that we jack-in and mainline an everyday present that has morphed into those terrifying sci-fi dystopias of yesteryear. A cultural studies coyotex /hacker whose work moves from Fritz Lang’s cybertronic Maria and Terminator’s Skynet to George Miller’s Valhalla War Boys, Naief Yehya punctures psyches to plug us into dystopic sci-fi reels that powerfully anticipate today’s planetary fight-to-death struggle to hold fist-tight our last vestiges of humanity.”

Frederick Luis Aldama, author of Talking #browntv: Latinas and Latinos on the Screen, & Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08681HJSX
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hyperbole Books Digital (March 21, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 21, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 27628 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 209 pages
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Naief Yehya

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Naief Yehya (Mexico City, 1963) is an industrial engineer, journalist, writer, pornographographer, and cultural critic, has lived in Brooklyn since 1992. He writes for several publications in Mexico, Spain and Latin America and has published four novels: Sanitary Works (Grijalbo, 1992), Going Home (Planeta,1994), The truth About Life on Mars (Planeta, 1995) and Ashes and Things (Random House, 20917); two short stories collections: Tales of Bad Women (Plaza & Janés, 2002) and Slices (Conaculta, 2012), and the essays: The Transformed Body. Cyborgs and our Technological Heritage in the Real World and Science Fiction (Paidos, 2001), War and Propaganda: Mass Media and the Myth of War in the US (Paidos, 2003), Pornography: Mediated Sex and Moral Panic (Plaza & Janés, 2004), Technoculture (Tusquets, 2009), Pornography. Sexual and Technological Obsession (Tusquets, 2012), Pornculture (Tusquets, 2013) and Drone Visions. A Brief Cyberpunk History of Killing Machines (San Diego State University Press, Hyperbole, 2020). Yehya’s work in fiction and non-fiction deals mainly with the impact of technology, mass media, propaganda and pornography in culture and society

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Leopoldo Gout
5.0 out of 5 stars IS THIS THE BIRTH OF HAL? CYBERPUNK! DRONES! RETRO FUTURE WHATS NOT TO LIKE!!!! GET IT NOWWWWWW!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2020
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Drone Visions is a smart and daring interpretation of the legacy of cyberpunk: its formidable aesthetics, retro futuristic decay, high-tech and low life, and powerful pessimistic narratives. Also the certainty of a world populated by hybrids in which human minds are no longer the ultimate and sole authority. Naief Yehya presents a STUNNING political reading of our convulsed and hyper technological present, mainly through the scrupulous analysis of films that he calls the Cyberpunk cannon (Blade Runner, Terminator, Alien and Mad Max), as well as other science fiction movies (Her, Ex-Maquina, Robocop and others), and the work of political activist artists working with the concept of long distance killings. Yehya’s vision takes off with the hype of smart missiles capable of filming their own destruction, deployed during the Gulf War, and the transformation of war into technological spectacle: an aseptic confrontation where mainstream media acts as an accomplice by using a militarist narrative in which casualties are replaced by powerful machines. Politicians and propagandists have come to normalize drone assassinations by making us believe that killer robots are precise, and inevitable, and their technology is efficient to the point that we can completely trust machines to decide on who lives and who dies. Yehya establishes a cultural genealogy from the Terminator to the Reaper Drone and by doing so also explores gender and social changes that have transformed western societies. An extremely readable, sharp, ironic book with amazing graphics and images in a fantastic format. ARE WE LIVING THE BIRTH OF HAL? IF YOU WANT TO KNOW... READ THIS WONDERFUL MAD CRAZY BOOK.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a masterful meditation on modern machines and media
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2021
heed Yehya's warning. ignore it at your peril.
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