ARTS 2877 (Sociology) Year 2
In spite of the first invention of militarised drones, the pervasive nature of ‘drone society names something distinct, a particular convergence of technics, bodies, visual appeals, and settings of assumption’ (Richardson 2020:859 In establishing militarised perception, the emergence of day-to-day militarism within consumer-based forms of modern technologies continues to increase, introducing additional problems of social and power connections. As such, Richardson highlights the underlying notion of sex national politics embedded within private drone use, keeping in mind that ‘domestic drone imaginaries within western pop culture, nonetheless, are much more surveillant: drones over beaches and backyards, outside bedroom windows, seeing where they should not. These are gendered and gendering imaginaries: the peeping tom drone, the womanly things of the technology’s male gaze’ (2020:864
While, Kaplan (2019 shares ‘the subtleties of daily militarism bring factors to consider of state physical violence, territorial occupations, and power inequalities into any type of field of study’ (2020: 859, the issue of sex national politics developing from the results of security on women bodies, continues the recurring disparities of gender-based violence/ injustice. Considering ‘the aerial view asks no approval and, until just recently, was almost completely inaccessible to the large bulk of humanity’ (2020: 865, in giving the ways that allow and make it possible for the objectification of (primarily) women, the underlying power dynamics incorporating noncombatant accessibility to drones, increases substantial concerns concerning an exacerbated crave voyeurism; where measurements of privacy have to do with all that is possessed by females in today’s day and age.
Such impacts of day-to-day security and control that develop our state of hypervigilance , thereby attract me to Foucault’s understanding of power and understanding as a kind of social control. Connecting back to the politicisation of modern technology,’the important things we call “technologies” are means of building order in our globe’ (Victor, 1980: 127, and via regulating behaviour to produce a sense of order and “normalcy”, Foucault’s account on ‘technique’ as an innovation of power expresses the sovereign desire for conformity. Nonetheless, upon managing conditions of power relationships by upholding attributes of numerous social constructs, the impact of security together with modernity has added to the growth of an “originality situation” collectively experienced by Gen Z. As the single generation having actually matured in a constant state of monitoring bordered by modern technical artefacts– the emergence of social media — navigating a globe in which whatever you wear to just how you behave is critiqued and evaluated online, has actually caused a developing concern of being “viewed” as an outlier.
In creating ‘accommodating bodies’, the result of surveillance in which power is shared, directly shapes the identities and discussions of an entire generation. Also, the ways people modify themselves externally to adhere among the social, can be comprehended with the comparison of “efficiencies” represented during the COVID- 19 lockdowns, for the degrees of monitoring lowered to a minimum, therefore allowing youngsters to explore beyond the limits of gender and sexuality without the concern of ostracism. This exhibited lack of authenticity attributed to Foucault’s concept of sovereign power and disciplinary power under surveillance, especially the hypervigilance Gen Z experience within wanting to be “suched as” and the value of social standing, as a result additional permits me to bring into play connections to Irving Goffman’s ‘Discussion of Self in Everyday Life’ and Judith Butler’s concept of sex performativity; a mystery in itself– both determining the minimal control worked out by individuals managed within a militarised state of surveillance.