The Terror Wars Drone On…Or Don’t They?

Abstract

In the Chap. 8, Hayes solidifies a map of the ways that rhetorical studies expands in useful ways with the incorporation of rhetoricoviolence as a rhetorical category and rhetorical cartography as a method. Embracing a rhetorical circulation model, Hayes then moves on to examine technologies of governance functioning within the US drone program, as well as through other outlets. The chapter concludes with a lengthy set of examinations of resistive subjects within the terror wars, from Rand Paul to creator of drone tracking application Josh Begley to various artists speaking to the rhetoricoviolence within the terror wars and the US drone program. Hayes calls for an awakening in performing additional rhetorical cartographies to best understand transnational empire in the twenty-first century and beyond.