Violence is instrumental, while power is generated through consent. Her thesis surrounds the distinctive role of violence and power. Writing in 1969 for the New York Review of Books, Arendt witnessed the rise of “mutually assured destruction”, the student protests that swept the globe in 1968, and the ongoing grind of communism in Eastern Europe. Hannah Arendt’s “Reflections on Violence” is a complicated article, situated within a distinct political climate, and yet of remarkable relevance for today. Without the “social check” of human-centred violence, drone warfare becomes severed, or alienated, from a concerned domestic citizenry. In this post, I extend Arendt’s thoughts on violence and power to modern drone warfare, which represents the ascendency of violence through technological and bureaucratic means. Reflections on Drone Violence and Robot Soldiers: Lessons from Hannah Arendt
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