What is it about?

This article analyzes a short fictional film about a drone becoming sentient for its socio-cultural meaning.

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Why is it important?

The narrative analysis shows to what extent the figure of the civilian drone speaks to contemporary desires of mobility and visuality, of space without borders.

Perspectives

This article can be of value to researchers interested in utopia, mobilities, drones, and visual communication. Suitable for the classroom as well.

Julia Hildebrand
Eckerd College

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This page is a summary of: Drone-topia as method, Mobilities, September 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1663079.
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