Becoming-Drone: From Military Scopophilia to Annihilation-image

The aim of this chapter is to deepen and extend the cinematicCinematic mode of political theorizing introduced in Chapter 2 . I will discuss the film Eye in the SkyEye in the Sky (2015) to demonstrate, through the conceptConcept of the annihilation-imageAnnihilation-image, how droneDrone violenceViolence moves from representationRepresentation to destruction. In annihilation-imageAnnihilation-image, ways of seeing and forms of annihilating are superimposed; the imageImage in/of war is no longer passive and reflective, but active and diffractive, suggesting that everything within the frame is potentially dead!