OUR CAPACITY TO CREATE
MUST OVERWHELM
THEIR CAPACITY TO DESTROY
Ian Alan Paul /// Experiments in Politics, Art & Technology
Predators /// 2011

 

 
Predators (2011) is a digital video which counts the number of individuals killed by U.S. Military Predator Drones in Pakistan between January/2004 and October/2011.  From Wikipedia: “Former CIA officials state that the agency uses a careful screening process in making decisions on which individuals to kill via drone strikes. The process, carried out at the agency’s counterterrorist center, involves up to 10 lawyers who write briefs justifying the targeting of specific individuals. According to the former officials, if the briefs’ arguments are weak, the request to target the individual is denied. Since 2008 the CIA has relied less on its list of individuals and increasingly targeted “signatures,” or suspect behavior. This change in tactics has resulted in fewer deaths of high-value targets and in more deaths of lower-level fighters, or “mere foot soldiers” as the one senior Pakistani official told the Washington Post”