This article discusses how the first-person genre, especially a Gazan wartime diary, allows both writer and reader to imagine new possibilities for understanding contemporary colonial drone warfare, which is instrumental in the strategic silencing and invisibilization of war victims. By creating this zone of invisibilization (one that I will name the “dronesphere”) through obfuscating loss of life, war perpetrators aim to drown out the voices of opposition and resistance in Gaza. This is precisely why an increasing autonomy of military technologies that I call the “anthropomorphizing of drones” has triggered fierce debates over the unaccountability for war crimes committed against those on the receiving end of such autonomous weaponry. One specific case that deserves serious attention in this regard is the deafening silence surrounding Israel’s use of lethal drones to assassinate people in Palestine, which has led to the strategic silencing and invisibility of Palestinian deaths and a struggle for survival through the use of top-down control via drones in the region. However, Atef Abu Saif’s use of “strategic anthropomorphism” in his wartime diary The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary does not grant the drone absolute autonomy in death-dealing but imagines Drone as a fictional character. Instead, the execution of Gazans is presented as a prolonged reconnaissance performance, which not only allows Gazans to see drones as an extension of (absent) drone operators’ bodies, but also to register their protest against the Israeli authorities by imagining Drone as a living entity. Therefore, using the authority of direct experience that Youval Noah Harari calls “flesh witnessing” (2008), Abu Saif’s wartime diary enables the formation of Palestinian subjectivities held under the sign of erasure, thereby claiming their rights as social and political human bodies. © The Author(s) 2020.

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用无人机做梦：看不见的战争阴影下的巴勒斯坦

本文讨论了第一人称类型，尤其是加沙战时日记如何让作家和读者想象理解当代殖民无人机战争的新可能性，这有助于战争受害者的战略沉默和隐形。通过混淆生命损失来创建这个隐形区域（我将其命名为“无人机领域”），战争肇事者旨在淹没加沙的反对和抵抗的声音。这正是为什么我称之为“无人机拟人化”的军事技术自主性不断提高，引发了激烈辩论，即对此类自主武器接收端的人犯下的战争罪是否不负责任。在这方面值得认真关注的一个具体案例是围绕以色列使用致命无人机暗杀巴勒斯坦人民的震耳欲聋的沉默，这导致巴勒斯坦人死亡的战略沉默和隐形以及通过使用自上而下的生存斗争通过该地区的无人机进行控制。然而，阿特夫·阿布赛义夫在他的战时日记《无人机与我同食：加沙日记》中使用了“战略拟人化”，并没有授予无人机在处理死亡方面的绝对自主权，而是将无人机想象成一个虚构人物。相反，对加沙人的处决被呈现为一种长时间的侦察表演，这不仅让加沙人将无人机视为（缺席的）无人机操作员身体的延伸，而且还通过将无人机想象成一种生活来表达他们对以色列当局的抗议实体。因此，阿布赛义夫的战时日记利用尤瓦尔•诺亚•哈拉里(Youval Noah Harari) 称之为“肉体见证”(flesh proofing) (2008) 的直接经验的权威，使巴勒斯坦主体在被抹除的标志下形成，从而主张他们作为社会和政治人体的权利。© 作者 2020。