Faber, Militarized Nature or How Drones Infiltrated Sensitive Ecologies through the Anticipatory Imaginaries of Cinema

Militarized Nature is an urgent account of a world where ecological collapse and security regimes are becoming indistinguishable. Moving across contested landscapes—from Arctic frontiers to zones of surveillance and extraction—this book traces how drones, with their AI infrastructures, and cinematic imaginaries shape not only territories, but perception itself. Blending theory, mythology and geopolitics with an expansive body of films and art works, Militarized Nature unfolds through encounters with airborne surveillance, animal mimicry, drifting histories, and the quiet violence of data-driven worlds. The analyses and works gathered here do not offer a single resolution. Instead, they move within instability, exposing the fault lines of a reality in which the boundaries between nature and warfare, image and infrastructure, have already collapsed. This is not a study of distant futures. It is a map of the present—one that insists the ecological crisis is already a security crisis, unfolding as one and the same, where images are weaponized and inseparable from the logics that sustain it.