{"id":6573,"date":"2011-12-10T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=6573"},"modified":"2013-07-19T20:31:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T00:31:29","slug":"the-beast-of-kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/12\/10\/the-beast-of-kandahar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beast of Kandahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iran displays purported US drone\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ivPq6_DMHwM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Iran claims to have captured one of the CIA&#8217;s stealth drones which, they say, intruded on their airspace. Usually, I would talk about nations&#8217; continuing <a title=\"Online Superiority: Developing the Capacity for Augmented War\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/08\/03\/online-superiority-developing-the-capacity-for-augmented-war\/\">development of their capacity for &#8220;augmented warfare&#8221;<\/a> and maybe throw in some commentary on how this relates to theories on surveillance and the state. But, to be totally honest, I am incapable of doing that right now. Not because I have deadlines for papers coming up, or because I actually <a title=\"A Brief Summary of Actor Network Theory\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/12\/02\/a-brief-summary-of-actor-network-theory\/\">promised that my next post was going to be about Actor Network Theory<\/a>. Its because&#8230; Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>THE THING LOOKS LIKE A FRACKING GODS DAMN CYLON RAIDER!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/12\/10\/the-beast-of-kandahar\/a-member-of-iran-s-revolutionary-guard-stands-alongside-the-u-s-rq-170-unmanned-spy-plane-drone-image-3-115065879\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6581\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6581\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/a-member-of-iran-s-revolutionary-guard-stands-alongside-the-u-s-rq-170-unmanned-spy-plane-drone-image-3-115065879-300x194.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/a-member-of-iran-s-revolutionary-guard-stands-alongside-the-u-s-rq-170-unmanned-spy-plane-drone-image-3-115065879-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/a-member-of-iran-s-revolutionary-guard-stands-alongside-the-u-s-rq-170-unmanned-spy-plane-drone-image-3-115065879-500x324.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/a-member-of-iran-s-revolutionary-guard-stands-alongside-the-u-s-rq-170-unmanned-spy-plane-drone-image-3-115065879.jpeg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/12\/10\/the-beast-of-kandahar\/jv_cylon_1-sized\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6583\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6583\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/jv_cylon_1-sized-300x221.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/jv_cylon_1-sized-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/jv_cylon_1-sized-500x369.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/jv_cylon_1-sized.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/12\/10\/the-beast-of-kandahar\/evraidersc3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6582\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6582\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/evraidersc3-300x158.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/evraidersc3-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/evraidersc3.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/12\/10\/the-beast-of-kandahar\/a-member-of-iran-s-revolutionary-guard-stands-alongside-the-u-s-rq-170-unmanned-spy-plane-drone-image-2-294432387\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6584\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6584\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/a-member-of-iran-s-revolutionary-guard-stands-alongside-the-u-s-rq-170-unmanned-spy-plane-drone-image-2-294432387-300x194.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/a-member-of-iran-s-revolutionary-guard-stands-alongside-the-u-s-rq-170-unmanned-spy-plane-drone-image-2-294432387-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/a-member-of-iran-s-revolutionary-guard-stands-alongside-the-u-s-rq-170-unmanned-spy-plane-drone-image-2-294432387-500x324.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/12\/a-member-of-iran-s-revolutionary-guard-stands-alongside-the-u-s-rq-170-unmanned-spy-plane-drone-image-2-294432387.jpeg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to my colleague, Kirk\u00a0for pointing out this horrifying fact.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow me on twitter! (While humanity still exists.) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DA_Banks\">da_banks<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran claims to have captured one of the CIA&#8217;s stealth drones which, they say, intruded on their airspace. Usually, I would talk about nations&#8217; continuing development of their capacity for &#8220;augmented warfare&#8221; and maybe throw in some commentary on how this relates to theories on surveillance and the state. But, to be totally honest, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22846,425],"tags":[13920,13923,10794,3519,2143],"class_list":["post-6573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-format","category-links","tag-augmented-warfare","tag-cylons","tag-drones","tag-sousveillance","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16306,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions\/16306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}