Jamal Awil

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Responsibility becomes blurred in distributed networks. [fact]

Not only can there be no simple attribution of responsibility, but the description of that responsibility, diffracted amid this headless network of multiple agents, tends to become diluted. It changes from being intentional to being unintentional, from being a war crime to being a military-industrial accident. Rather, as in the case of the “junk bonds” skillfully elaborated by finance, it becomes very difficult to determine who is who or who has done what. This is a typical way of fabricating irresponsibility.

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 665