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In pushing a rhetorical cartography of the US and Western authorized armed drone program further, this chapter looks at the capture and kill list as well as the disposition matrix, both prominent rhetorical techniques in mapping how drone strikes are authorized to launch. Hayes also generates a map of more discourses concerning US drone pilots, as well as rhetorics of the killing of US citizens within the program. Finally, the chapter engages some resistive rhetorical technologies that help map how subjectivities within the terror wars are disrupting its circulation of violence against Muslim bodies. Specifically, Hayes begins an examination of Shura City, a city-mapping project aimed at offering a resistive space for subjects to be safe from the buzzing of the drones.
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Hayes, H.A. (2016). Mapping the Disposal of Terrorist Bodies. In: Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars. Rhetoric, Politics and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48099-6_6
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