10/06/2017

12 - Death by Metadata


Source: https://www.spreadshirt.ie


In the chapter “Death by Metadata” (2016), questions around surveillance and “conduct of contemporary wars” guided Joseph Pugliese toward the understanding of the connections between the United States’ Department of Defense (DoD) and the National Security Agency (NSA) in the “US’s drone kill program” (3).  Pugliese attempt to comprehend NSA’s technologies used in the DoD’s drone program to reveal the use of metadata guiding drones to kill violently, what he called bioinformationalisation of life (4).