This author is a Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author and editor of several books that often examine contemporary technologies and their societal impact. Her work delves into the intricate connections between warfare technologies and human life, emphasizing critical analysis. She offers a profound perspective on the ethical and social questions surrounding modern conflicts.
Explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this travelling theory, and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and postmodernism.
Caren Kaplan traces the cultural history of aerial imagery-from the first vistas provided by balloons in the eighteenth century to the sensing operations of military drones-to show how aerial imagery is key to modern visual culture and can both enforce military power and foster positive political connections.