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Traumatized Drone Operators and the Rescue of American Exceptionalism

Thu, April 4, 11:30am to 1:00pm, TBA

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This paper queries popular fascination with PTSD among drone operators. Anti-drone discourses rely on this suffering to assuage anxiety about the affront to American exceptionalism—read as moral goodness—and that drone warfare seemingly poses.

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