{"product_id":"global-political-sociology-9783031704352","title":"Global Political Sociology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses the entanglement between Washington and Hollywood to shed light on the violence inherent in the image as a semiotic-material agent in contemporary warfare. In the 21st century, the weaponized military drone, an image-centered machine, has spearheaded the geopolitical curatorship of the USA in the context of the war on terror. Drone violence shares the same characteristics as cinema: image and movement. However, a drone's image is not purely a reflection of the nature of war; it is more than representational, it is performative. Building upon the concept of annihilation-image, this book argues that the image wields a destructive agency as it transitions from reflection to diffraction. Rather than mirroring reality, the annihilation-image creates a brutal pattern of difference in the world. It is a destructive ontology in which seeing and annihilating are in a state of superposition. Therefore, everything that is framed is potentially dead. That is to say, by framing bodies and objects in the terrain, a state of superpositional violence is created in which one is alive, but virtually dead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53579046093079,"sku":null,"price":13786.2,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9783031704352.jpg?v=1782467425","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/products\/global-political-sociology-9783031704352","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}