ABSTRACT
As coronavirus lockdowns left the world’s cities deserted, drone footage of empty towns made its appearance on video-sharing platforms. Across the globe, observers insisted on the melancholic feelings that such “eerie,” “post-apocalyptic” images aroused. This chapter proposes to highlight some of the political and affective dimensions of coronavirus drone footage and to insist on their problematic aestheticization of politics, especially in relation to ecological thinking.
