Where is the subject that holds power? Against a background of neoliberalism and postmodernity, that question has become obsessive. Adorno’s words indicate a good way to resolve it: it is wherever it is working actively in order to make itself forgotten. The intense activity designed to efface it is what unfailingly singles it out: a great deal of subjective activity, involving huge efforts and enormous energy, designed to cover one’s tracks, efface evidence, and wipe out any trace of a subject involved in action.

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 651