ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with exploring the contingent ways in which gender is trafficked and what work it is doing in high-tech practices of war with a particular focus on drone warfare. It offers some fresh feminist insight into critically navigating the complex network of gender, violence, and technology. The chapter discusses some insight into key feminist debates on the relationship between gender and technology. It explains a feminist analysis of gendered frames of thought which render drone warfare intelligible and permissible and demonstrates how gender works to (dis)embody war anew. The chapter shows that some feminist insight into the ambivalent, and thus, open relationship between technology and violence where gender's hold might be loosened, enabling challenges to war's gendered grids of intelligibility and enactments of violence. One attentive and sensitive to both the deadly enactments of gendered technologies of war and the resistant opportunities available even in the most violent of representations and performances of human–machine interfaces.
