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NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK PRIZE 2011! This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals. Brings together a number of interdisciplinary approaches towards the aeroplane and its relation to society Presents an original theory that our societies are aerial societies, or 'aerealities', and shows how we are both enabled and threatened by aerial mobility Features a series of detailed international case studies which map the history of aviation over the past century - from the promises of early flight, to World War II bombing campaigns, and to the rise of international terrorism today Demonstrates the transformational capacity of air transport to shape societies, bodies and individual identities Offers startling historical evidence and bold new ideas about how the social and material spaces of the aeroplane are considered in the modern era
From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better understood their past, and imagined their future. In Aerial Aftermaths Caren Kaplan traces this cultural history, showing how aerial views operate as a form of world-making tied to the times and places of war. Kaplan’s investigation of the aerial arts of war—painting, photography, and digital imaging—range from England's surveys of Scotland following the defeat of the 1746 Jacobite rebellion and early twentieth-century photographic mapping of Iraq to images taken in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Throughout, Kaplan foregrounds aerial imagery's importance to modern visual culture and its ability to enforce colonial power, demonstrating both the destructive force and the potential for political connection that come with viewing from above.
This book explores recreational uses of consumer drones from the lenses of media ecology, mobile communication, mobilities research, and science and technology studies. In this provocative ethnography, Julia M. Hildebrand discusses camera drones as mobile media for meaningful play. She thus widens perspectives onto the flying camera as foremost unmanned aircraft, spying tool, or dangerous toy towards a more comprehensive understanding of its potentials. How should we situate drone practices in recreational spaces? What ways of seeing, moving, and being do hobby drones open up? Across chapters about drone geography, communication, mobility, visuality, and human-machine relations, Aerial Play introduces novel frameworks for drone affordances, such as communication on the fly, disembodied mobilities, auratic vertical play, and drone-mindedness. In the mobile companionship with her own drone, Hildebrand contributes an innovative “auto-technographic” method for the self-reflective study of media and mobility. Ultimately, her grounded and aerial fieldwork illuminates new technological, mobile, visual, and social relations in everyday spaces.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Introductory technical guidance for electrical engineers and others interested in electrical safety when working with aerial electric power distribution lines. Here is what is discussed: 1. AERIAL LINE WORK 2. POLE HANDLING OPERATIONS 3. POLE INSTALLATION, REPLACEMENT, AND REMOVAL 4. CLIMBING AND WORKING ON POLES 5. POLE CLIMBING EQUIPMENT 6. POLE CLIMBING AND WORK PRECAUTIONS 7. CROSSING STRUCTURES 8. STRINGING OR REMOVING DEENERGIZED CONDUCTORS AND OVERHEAD GROUND WIRES 9. ENERGIZED WORK 10. STREET LIGHTING 11. WORKING ON OR NEAR POLE-MOUNTED EQUIPMENT 12. AERIAL ROPE 13. TOOLS 14. AERIAL LIFTS AND INSULATED BUCKETS 15. TREE TRIMMING AND BRUSH REMOVAL.
Introductory technical guidance for electrical engineers and electric power distribution system operators interested in safety for working with and around aerial electric power distribution lines. Here is what is discussed: 1. AERIAL LINE WORK, 2. POLE HANDLING OPERATIONS, 3. POLE INSTALLATION, REPLACEMENT, AND REMOVAL, 4. CLIMBING AND WORKING ON POLES, 5. POLE CLIMBING EQUIPMENT, 6. POLE CLIMBING AND WORK PRECAUTIONS, 7. CROSSING STRUCTURES, 8. STRINGING OR REMOVING DEENERGIZED CONDUCTORS AND OVERHEAD GROUND WIRES, 9. ENERGIZED WORK, 10. STREET LIGHTING, 11. WORKING ON OR NEAR POLE-MOUNTED EQUIPMENT, 12. AERIAL ROPE, 13. TOOLS, 14. AERIAL LIFTS AND INSULATED BUCKETS, 15. TREE TRIMMING AND BRUSH REMOVAL.