8/30/2023 0 Comments Gothic 2 nk![]() As such, contemporary feminist analysis requires an analysis of the politics of life and death in the insect and the swarm, which, following Braidotti ( 2002), cannot be assumed to be a mere metaphor or representation of political life, but an animating materialist logic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Contemporary developments suggest that the future of warfare will not be ‘robots’ as technological, individualised substitutions for idealised (masculine) warfighters, but warfighters understood as swarms: insect metaphors for non-centrally organised problem-solvers that will become technologies of racialisation. Insects and ‘the swarm’ as metaphors and objects of research have inspired works in the genres of science fiction and horror social and political theorists and the development of war-fighting technologies such as ‘drone swarms’, which function as robot/insect hybrids.
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