Combat at Gamer’s Pace. No Pause nor Reset Button

I'm very happy to introduce Olga Daniliuk, who's a British Academy Researcher at Risk Fellow in RCSSD London, where she completed her PhD under the title Virtually True, Intermedial Strategies in Staging of War Conflict. And she continued her fieldwork as a volunteer with the CIMIC unit in the war zone of eastern Ukraine. Her performative research resulted in large-scale performances with teenagers from frontline towns. Names of these performances, letters to an unknown friend from New York, and contact line. Documentary performance, A Visit to the Minotaur, was presented at CIMIC. Several festivals all over Europe. And work, The Legend of Golem, was presented at the Golden Lion Festival in Lviv. The claws were bad enough in the first place. Nasty, crawling little death robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace, if it could. Across the ground, something small and metallic came, flashing in the dull sunlight of midday. A metal sphere. It raised up the hill after the Russian. Its wrist, its threads flying. It was small, one of the baby ones. Its claws were out, two razor projections spinning in a blur of a white steel.

The Russian heard it. He turned instantly, firing. The sphere dissolved into the particles. But already a second had emerged and was following the first. The Russian fired again. A third sphere leaped up the Russian's legs, clicking and whirling. It jumped to the shoulder. The spinning blades disappeared into the Russian's throat. Eric relaxed. Well, that's that. God, those damn things give me creeps. Sometimes I think we were better off before. So, this is the second variety. It's a science novel by American writer Philip Dick set in the world where war between the Soviet Union and the United Nations has reduced more of the world to a bare wasteland. The plot evolved from discovery, but the few remaining soldiers left that self-replicating role. The self-replicating robots originally built to assassinate Soviet agents have gained sanctity and are plotting against both sides now. The novel's fascinating narrative exemplifies our long-time obsession with autonomous weapons. What I'm trying to argue about is that this, our long-term obsession with autonomous weapons, is not just about the war. It's about the war. This is the end of the war. This is our long-term obsession with the power and dominance of autonomous weapons.

It's now epitomized in a drone technology with the extensions to networks and big data. When the vision has been incorporated into intelligent and robotic system, especially unmanned aerial vehicles, AUV. Especially unmanned aerial vehicles, AUV. Especially unmanned aerial vehicles, AUV. As pointed out by Tom Harlett, arguably the image space of contemporary warfare are the most sophisticated and saturated of time. Repleted with full motion video tracking data, thermal sensing, hyperspectical imaging, adaptive direct sampling, mobile data 3D mapping, etc. However difficult it may be to maintain high level operability of this technology, it's still a very complex and complex technology. However difficult it may be to maintain high level operability of this technology, it's still a very complex and complex technology. However difficult it may be to maintain high level operability of this technology, it's still a very complex and complex technology. However difficult it may be to maintain high level operability of this technology, it's still a very complex and complex technology. Some output data is that image space is being used for overweight aging landscapes while ave regardless of the size of the object, when you are drawing of the object working, you are faced with a photographic object with smelled colors.

Some output data is that image space is being used for overweight aging landscapes while ave regardless of the size of the object working, you are faced with aலd and hair, from the right foot this is charge ion, andanned kara is theLIOS shown as a negative tonal value. Some output data is that image space is being used for overweight hangings, for example. Antoine Bosquet, the scopic regime of cultural theory calls for the inclusion of martial gaze. The ethic of seeing from drawn, aka God's eye view, which enables the conduct of war from a distance is controversial in terms of the dehumanizing effect of killing as a practice of manhunting. The execution on violence is outsourced to control semi-robots as an efficient way to eliminate the enemy while minimizing the death toll among the members of military power. The controversy of targeting killing with drones contends the notion of scopic regime, which is mostly concerned with the politics of images, mainly how political shapes, visual. On the contrary, the drawn view determines how visual construct politics, giving the privileged position of those who can see from a drawn. The hypersensing technology supposedly can reveal the true essence of targets.

The assumption that underlies the legitimacy of violence delivered from this world is not true. The hypersensing technology supposedly can reveal the true essence of This perspective. So the rhetoric of power operates through naturalization technologies of vision, the Western concept of vision as idea. So I'll try to look at the history to step back to start with how our vision and rhetoric of power is connected to aesthetic. So like the next subchapter, It's called We Made It Beautiful because it's the last thing some people will see. In general, technology that largely shaped the public sphere also mobilized the power released from the unhinging and recollection of the senses that was most evident in military technology, especially as this technology was increasingly trained on urban sites in two world wars. Eventually, the organic perception is abolished altogether in order to replace with technological super-perception. The division between organic and technological forms an essential foundation for the military technology. For instance, organic is considered too slow and imperfect, therefore, the argumentation about prosthetic addition ultimately requires complete replacement. In seeking to reestablish the underlying currents of contemporary perception, Bishops and Philip observed that the… The development of contemporary military technology coincides with an era of active experiments in art.

Even though theaters of war and museums of modern art coexist at separate entities, there is an overlooked connection between two domains. This resonates with Bishop and Philip's analysis of military machine design, oddly striving to make its appearance as striking as its capabilities. In their view, military technology explores… explores the power of the aesthetic, which is intimately connected to technology. The visionary and the visionary power resides in the heart of technoscience. Take the case of the Bell helicopter model, for instance, which is designed for all weather conditions, day or night, allowing four fields of view, wide, medium, narrow, and narrow zoom, for long-distance precision targeting. Moreover, targeting and firing can be controlled remotely, overcoming the pilot's limited point of view, and so on. What would be the role of this aesthetic aspect of its beauty? The division between the instrumental and the aesthetic is blurred and as evident from advertising text. We made it beautiful because it's the last thing some people will ever see. The AHIZ. First, it frustrates the enemy with the target system that detects, recognizes, and identifies them at extreme ranges. Then, it demonstrates the versatility of the widest array of ordnance available.

Finally, if you wish, it permits the enemy to view a state-of-the-art helicopter like no other. The AHIZ. Unbeatable. Proves that your mission is our mission. So, the rapid development was prompted by the requirements of military industry that need technological advances to remove warfare from the constraints of reality. Military tactics entailed, if the target can be seen, it can be destroyed. That is the essence of the AHIZ. The advertising slogan for Comanche helicopter sounds the following, whatever threat Comanche detects is history. It's particularly not worth it in the respect of the vision and targeting. This example reflects the thinking of Paul Virilio about the relation between speed and the aesthetic of disappearance, mainly the conversion of perception and lethality. He suggests that with the invention of the photogram, this is of instant photography and of cinematography, from the moment one enters into the aesthetic of disappearance. The main shift occurred in the grounds of perception and the expansion of knowledge, or at least data now accessibly solely by machines. In the same way, modern life, that is subjected, to the camera gaze incorporates attributes previously external to it. The power of division, which remains unrepresented table brings the subject and object together in it, in the sentences sent sentences of presence.

So we have this kind of long history, how our perception and politics, but form, also with the fascinating of machine and their aesthetic. A particular example is the one of the widely recognized stock shot. Stock shots in contemporary films, a take off of military fights, which does so in slow motion such that the audience can perceive it. Technological splendor. The two forms of technology match match here to create the image of the impossible. The military technology of speeding up, of the plane reveals the technology of speed. There's aesthetic treatment deployed. New media technologies, slowing down the plane on film reveals the performative operation of technology in contemporary visual, visual culture. For the past decades, our worldview was extended by drone aesthetic, the machining capacities for sensing and sense making with constitutes drone system themselves. Like for instance, a general atomic marketing advertising department patches is the service of illustrated animation artists and movie directors to visualize and promote its drone range. The advertising doesn't even try to appear realistic, but rather like a beam movie aesthetic, which simply derealizing the operation of. Of drawn warfare. When binder boundaries between military and domestic are disintegrated, we might ask what makes current politics visible and possible.

The performative level question who addresses whom, how the power works and to what effect it was remembering that we don't simply become freer with increased technological capabilities, rather the technology that constitute our capability. Capabilities also at the same time constitute the power relation according to which bodies function in the system. According to Foucault, it is not surprising that the complex structure of the performative condition of the modern world requires new knowledge and then different set of tools for critical analysis that those developed within traditional philosophical concept. So, if, if you look at the last bit of the prehistory, I would refer to McKinsey comes concept of the notion of performance. So McKinsey extends the idea of performance with his argument about intersection between different types of cultural organization and technological performances. He traces military research in U. S. A. At the time of Cold War, which redefines American science in response. In response to the demands of sophisticated weaponry backed by by political and social forces, scientists push the limits of material machines and entire system by creating high standards of technological performance. Furthermore, beyond the criteria of high performance, the criteria of very high performance and ultra high performance in marriage, eventually high performance devices originally developed for military made their way into our everyday life.

But transferring of high performance technology into consumer and business market with the robotization of urban service. The notion is that the forest side for the year. To 20, 2050 is to imagine drones as commonplace in the aerial or smart cities along alongside beds. So here is my next argument that when the high technology. Developed by military and to the consumer space, it is kind of. We enter into the subversion of military power. So this is. Kind of quite, I think, like evident at the front light of Russian Ukrainian war. So as stated by researcher James button Roger, we are in the second drone age, and drones are the fastest home building vehicle zipping through the air and change direction in no time. But the second drone age we enter into gamification of war. The assembling of future and reality that challenges how civil military relation are conceptualized. The commercialization of drone technology and its successful integration into post panoptic system of military technology. Realized. In visual rhetoric of power supremacy and progressiveness with the main scholarship. While the main scholarship integrates the high end military technology and state violence. The taxes developed. At Ukraine's. Frontline.

Make us think about military use of devices that have more common with toys than military hardware. The white use of wedding drones. Like Mavic. On Ukrainian battlefield. We use weapons. We use weapons. really blurs the line between the type of drones used to fight wars and to film weddings. With this new technological leap, the drones that were built for thrills are now rewriting military doctrine. So this is footage from TikTok with different handmade robots that are developing in Ukraine. It's kind of a take of consumer machines on really high-tech military complex. The state-controlled military equipment is a match in the chaos of guerrilla-style war tactics in the mass trench warfare. A formidable high-tech military vehicle can be destroyed by the grenade attached to a consumer drone dropped with the right precision. So very expensive military vehicles are really becoming an easy target to consumer drones. Today's battlefield commercial drones have their roots in hobby experimentation, which affects the way wars conducted in perceived. Commonly referred as the eyes in disguise, small drones become so essential for maintaining battlefield awareness the soldiers feel themselves as blind as kittens on the front lines without UAV's. The drone usage will only escalate as both the defending and attacking forces seek an edge in identifying and striking their targets.

Consumers жестby вер Cheltyоcteno яцтинь грáticaрыми поражают неständно Mayo Imperial Re physique Scrioute094 Regism, in which the Army's pulling a forehand Mountilik Associated Start, yet footwork Grove Assylatoрs did not receive significant anti-aircraft launch huh to deter clothing skill to combat the Allies. Consumer technologies are much cheaper and develop faster than military technology and would be incorporated in warfare even more in the future. And I think this is one of the shifts in current warfare, that it's much cheaper and faster to develop weaponry through civil companies rather than this complex military expensive production. As suggested by media, consumer drones are… …democratizing warfare by providing militaries with new ways to conduct reconnaissance, gather intelligence and deliver weapons. With the development of consumer devices, people have means to participate in war in ways they have never previously been available. Ukrainian government initiate drone army that collects civilian assets. And commercial drones for the Ukrainian regular and volunteer forces. The regular presence of small, unidentifiable drones of a conflict zone cause confusion, fear and disgust. Civilians on the ground will be unable to know who is watching them and for what purpose. The drone war is a catastrophe for the people on the ground.

Both sides repeatedly strike blows. The enemy with cheap kamikaze drone. Even if these drones don't release bombs, soldiers have learned to fear the buzzing of quadrocopter engines overhead as the flights over for a shadow in incoming artillery barrage. In one moment, a squad is a flicker of light, visible in thermal imaging, captured by drone camera and shared with the tablet on an enemy hiding nearby. In the next… The soldier execution is filmed from above, captured in 4K resolution by a weapon available for sale at any Best Buy. On Twitter in July 2022, Mikhail Fedorov, Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation, made an appeal for donations in addition to crowdfunding campaigns for cryptocurrency donations for building up the country army of drones. Mikhail Fedorov, Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation, made an appeal for donations in addition to crowdfunding campaigns for cryptocurrency donations for building up the country army of drones. So what happens when the underground world of DIY drones building and drones racing is up-copted by the military? The main shift occurred in the grounds of perception to a post-human transformation of visions and war. The aesthetic of drones vision became a commonplace for the marketing videos and film footage, with alienate and glamorize drones.

All of our dialogue used the superficial concept of a Peyton Manco film making the imag disciples of the Frog Chambers who've eroded the signals, and made a massive change in the story. This changed the SUBSCRIBING and ARTIFYING overall opinions and the files. The supernatural circle which ignored the suspicion of the lost of the existing phantom that scoot through Hobies Fourier Seltzer ázars findingongo R. With plenty of cinema and film to talk about, what the real history of saves. drawn piloting as video games playing. Here we enter into gamification of war. The gamification was one of the major forces for mediatization, and we might argue that war is mediatized through gaming technology. Gamification is also the way it is perceived and conducted. For a sibling, governments around the world are increasingly looking to recruit young people with gaming experience to join their fights. So to wrap up, I will just conclude with this quote by McKinney. More and more violence, not merely as an aspect of art, but as an everyday presence, seems to come equipped with its own escape hatch, its own assurance that involvement, can be avoided. Those who communicate violence in its varied forms are eager to provide the means by which the receptor can re-fight it into a construct, something not messy and uncontrollable, but regimented with the walkable outlines of fiction.

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