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The following is Pir Zubiar Shah’s account of the so-called drone war:

(PIR ZUBAIR SHAH, fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard¶ University, "My Drone War", Foreign Policy,  MARCH/APRIL 2012)
We don’t even sit together to chat anymore," the Taliban fighter told me,
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and al Qaeda, as well as the Pakistani military and intelligence services.

We advocate this countervisuality as a dissensus against the drone war as a means to make visible those populations rendered invisible by drones

This countervisuality stands in contrast to the current visuality of the US governments drone war. The drone constructs a visuality that seeks to classify, separate and aesthetize the insurgent.

McFarlane 2013
Megan D. McFarlane, graduate student at The University of Utah,  "Drones, Biopolitics and Visuality: The Aestheticization of the War on Terror" presented at the Alta Conference on Argumentation, 2013) 

One of the prominent realms where classification and separation function is in the us/
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right,’ a priori and hence aesthetic" (p. 278). 

The UAV is the signature technology in creating the post-panoptic visuality of the global counter-insurgency. These technologies create a visualized authority whose location is not determinable from the technologies used making it invisible.

Mirzoeff, 2011
(Nicholas Mirzoeff, professor of media, cultures and communication at NYU "The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality", Duke University Press, 2011,19-21 ) 

The entanglements and violence of counterinsurgency that began in Algeria and continued in Vietnam and
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, permanently moving to the next level in the ultimate massively multiplayer environment.

Drone combat reinforces the techno-cultural distinction between "their" space and "our" space. This is the classification and separation that allows the triumph of visuality

Gregory,2011 ¶
 (Derek Gregory, PeterWall Distinguished Professor at the University of¶ British Columbia in Vancouver, "From a View to a Kill : Drones and Late Modern War", Theory Culture Society 2011 28: 188)

If there is something predatory about these new states of violence,¶ however, that
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new military¶ optic, both points of view are always ’ours’.

The visuality of the drone is a form of necropolitics. Rather than attempting to render a population docile this visuality seeks to enforce a permanent separation between the host population and the insurgent. In the post-panoptic society of the drone this necropolitics is made invisible to the insurgent creating a chaos that is key to sustaining the order of visuality.

Mirzoeff, 2011
(Nicholas Mirzoeff, professor of media, cultures and communication at NYU "The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality", Duke University Press, 2011, ) 

I want to claim the right to look.1 This claim is, not
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or otherwise, but for us, there is nothing to be seen. 

The visuality created by drones is a racially motivated necropolitics and gives the state justification to execute entire populations. The drone allows for the invisible segmentation of the entire globe into population that matter and others that do not and allows the elimination of the "lesser" populations.

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 (Jamie, University of Westminster, Millennium Conference 2012, "Necropolitics of the Cyborg Empire: Rethinking the Drone War", Pg. 9-12,)
The concept of ’necropolitics’ occupies that space between the image of the sovereign as
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all adult males killed by strikes as "militants," absent exonerating evidence’.

Countervisuality challenges the law that sustains visuality’s ability to determine what is right. Our advocacy makes it impossible for authority to suture its interpretation of the sensible to power. We reject the status quo interpretation of the real and reclaim the right to look for those not in a position of authority

Mirzoeff, 2011
(Nicholas Mirzoeff, professor of media, cultures and communication at NYU "The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality", Duke University Press, 2011, 25-26) 

The claim of the right to oneself as autonomy further implies a claim of the
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as an index of reality, as indicated by the persistence of racism. 

New interpretation and deployment of authority in academics changes the world. The discussions we have here matter more than fictionalized worlds we create that allow visuality to retain its power.

Mirzoeff, 2011
(Nicholas Mirzoeff, professor of media, cultures and communication at NYU "The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality", Duke University Press, 2011, 29-30)
One response to my claim for the right to look might be: so what
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undone, while new ones are being made. Atten¬tion should be paid.