“Who owns the sky” is not a new question but a persistent one. For more than three centuries it emerges as a social, legal, technological, and geopolitical problem. Indeed, the aerial is not something that is simply above our heads but an element that fluctuates in and out of the body. And while the air and the body are inseparable, the aerial has been turned directly against the body in various ways since the beginning of the 20th century. This paper explores the unsettled frontiers of the fly-zone, looking into the interrelated occupations, exploitations, and democratizations of the aerial. It sketches the emergence of the state/corporate no-fly zone (NFZ) through the emergence of small-scale civilian drones, which developed into a sophisticated industry that negotiates new forms of state power to technology corporations. This new configuration of aerial control and management complicates the established, state-imposed, regulatory NFZ and suggests the development of a new techno-cultural assemblage of spatial closures through the air. Against this backdrop, I discuss two case-studies of aerial resistance through the use of do-it-yourself (DIY) aerial-photography in Israel/Palestine. I show how DIY tactics and tools offer a distinctive kind of evocation and provocation that challenge the conceptual and material boundaries of the NFZ and direct the attention to the ruptured links between the aerial and the human body. Finally, I discuss how DIY aerial-photography is also a particular kind of testimony and a methodological mediation that allows questioning the very premise of knowledge production through technosocial, activist engagement.

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谁拥有天空？空中阻力和国家/企业禁飞区

“谁拥有天空”不是一个新问题，而是一个顽固的问题。三个多世纪以来，它作为一个社会、法律、技术和地缘政治问题出现。事实上，天线并不是简单地在我们头顶上的东西，而是一种在身体内外波动的元素。虽然空气和身体密不可分，但自 20 世纪初以来，天线已经以各种方式直接对着身体。本文探讨了飞行区的未解决边界，研究了空中相互关联的职业、开发和民主化。它通过小型民用无人机的出现描绘了国家/企业禁飞区 (NFZ) 的出现，后者发展成为一个复杂的行业，可以与科技公司谈判新形式的国家权力。这种空中控制和管理的新配置使已建立的、国家强加的监管 NFZ 复杂化，并建议通过空中空间封闭的新技术文化组合的发展。在此背景下，我通过在以色列/巴勒斯坦使用自己动手 (DIY) 航空摄影来讨论空中阻力的两个案例研究。我展示了 DIY 策略和工具如何提供一种独特的唤起和挑衅，挑战 NFZ 的概念和物质边界，并将注意力引向空中和人体之间断裂的联系。最后，我讨论了 DIY 航空摄影如何也是一种特殊的证词和方法论调解，它允许通过技术社会、激进的参与来质疑知识生产的前提。