Jason Pearl is an associate professor of literature at Florida International University. His first book is Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel (2014); his second book project is entitled “Balloon Flight and the View above Britain.” He is also book reviews editor of Digital Defoe.
Jason Pearl
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Writing on Public Books
Our Drones, Ourselves
Drones have changed modern warfare almost beyond recognition. In the 19th century, the military theorist Carl von Clausewitz likened war to “a duel on a larger scale,” but drones do away with chivalry, removing one of the duelists from danger and subjecting the other to a barrage of missiles.1 Thus, according to the philosopher Grégoire […]
