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Dr Amy Gaeta
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Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today

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Every time I see a rainbow I am certain that we have been gifted the most magnificent possible planet to live on
A rainbow is in the sky over a light tan school building
September 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Doing a quick post from holiday to show everyone this perfectly curled kitty on a shop front in Hydra
An orange cat is curled sleeping in a big blue bowl on a white painted stone street
August 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Been re-reading David Wojnarowicz's brilliant, devastating memoir Close to the Knives, and this passage always hits me like a ton of bricks with its eerily present sentiments.
With all these occurrences of death facing me, I thought about issues of freedom. If government projects the idea that we, as people inhabiting this particular land mass, have freedom, then for the rest of our lives we will go out and find what appear to be the boundaries and smack against them like a heart against the rib cage. If we reveal boundaries in the course of our movements, then we will expose the inherent lie in the use of the word: freedom. I want to keep breathing and moving until I arrive at a place where motion and strength and relief intersect. I don't know what is ahead of me in the course of my life and this civilization. I just don't feel I have reached the necessary things inside my history that would ease the pressure in my skull and in my future and in my present. It is exhausting, living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.
August 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Lou and I are sending love to everyone impacted by the horrors of this administration
A black cat is sitting on a couch and yawning
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Recently visited a WW2 themed cafe on the Norfolk coast. Spitfire lattes galore. Extremely odd spot. They surprisingly have a vegan menu, but unsurprisingly have pictures of Churchill in the bathrooms
A latte is shown and the outline of a spitfire plane has been dusted on top of the latte with cinnamon An old bomb canister is shown outside in a fenced off area A messy desk with lots of communication devices, binoculars, and war plans is shown A few tables are shown. There are many Union Jack flags hanging from the ceiling and some mannequins wearing 1940s dress
May 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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*seeking diabetic people based in the UK*

Great opportunity to help researchers who are seeking to design better diabetic food tracking technology! Please share.

Expression of interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A brightly coloured poster which says invites diabetic people in the UK to take part in a focus group online or in person to talk about their experience of diabetic carbohydrate tracking and what might make it better. There is a QR code to the link below to express interest. Participants will be paid with a £20 love to shop gift card, and the study has been granted ethical approval by the University of Sheffield. Expression of interest form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7cFTJl9AI7NfJf-O9Y3Mziy6w0akanKmCVYKPblVswmscHg/viewform?usp=dialog
May 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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The Center for Drones and Cultures is thrilled to host Dr Alex Adams next week to discuss a chapter from their new book Kill Box: Military Drone Systems and Cultural Production. Tickets are still available! Lecture held on Zoom.

May 7th, 12-1PM BST.

You can register here: t.co/G2sOdHijuV
Poster for an online lecture by Alex Adams. It is for a talk called “How to Weaponize Your Gender: Drone Operators Bodies in Contemporary Cultural Production.”
May 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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*not to equate transphobia and racism, obviously*
The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.
May 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Very disappointing and dangerous erasure of long COVID from this AI overview that compulsively pops up on every Google search.
Text from an AI overview on Google says: The COVID-19 pandemic did not create new disabilities, but it did exacerbate existing challenges and introduce new ones for people with disabilities, impacting their participation and activities.
April 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Re my anger today
A financial times opinion article titled “Europe must trim its welfare state in order to build a warfare state”
March 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Black cat yelling
February 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Paid off my student loans. Many thanks to anyone who has ever hired me to copyedit their articles or speak at their uni
Black cat looking excited yet scared
January 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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These two beautiful cats need our help! A long time friend and brilliant scholar-activist is need of support after her two cats have faced some serious medical issues and the vet bills have piled up.

If you can, please consider donating: t.co/4N3cKHkAkD
Two cats lay under a Christmas tree, looking comfortable
December 20, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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Black cat looking excited while sitting on a coffee table
December 11, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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Looking forward to this event tonight to preview a new cluster of projects on trans, queer, feminist, and crip surveillance and privacy! With the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective

Register here:

TINYURL.COM/34PUKDRY
DIGITAL RHETORICAL PRIVACY COLLECTIVE (DRPC) AND AMY GAETA - RACHAEL JORDAN - ELITZA KOTZEVA - EMILY GILLO - ASA MCMULLEN Join us for an "office hour," featuring scholarship from the forthcoming Peitho Cluster Conversation edited by Morgan Banville and Gavin Johnson titled, "Talking back through Rhetorical Surveillance Studies: Intersectional Feminist and Queer Approaches." DECEMBER 5,2024 AT 2:00 P.M. EST REGISTER HERE: HTTPS//TINYURL.COM/34PUKDRY
December 5, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Looking forward to delivering my talk tomorrow about targeted health advertisements and disability identity that feeds into my ongoing project of conceptualizing a “crip surveillance studies.”

9-10:30 UK time! Registration link in post below
A schedule for the desirable visualization cross cultural seminar series. Click the link for more information.
November 26, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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My cat’s new “quirk” is screaming whenever they are not able to sit on me. Including screaming when I’m not home (according to my neighbors)
Black cat sitting on my lap while I sit on the couch
November 17, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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What a feeling to see “Beware Blue Skies” on display at the Imperial War Museum in London after a playing a role in for a year in conceptualizing this project with the Centre for Drones & Cultures and Human Studio. It is on displays till mid March, please go see it if you get a chance!
Wall text for short film Wall art showing a drone against a camouflage background Inside of exhibition, shows images of clouds projected on three walls. A small camouflage rug with a drone on it sit in the center Scene of the short film. Shows a destroyed city center with smashed cars and buildings
November 15, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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Thought I’d do an introduction. I’m a postdoc mainly focusing on civilian drones and how they fit within processes of militarizing subjects in the global north. I use feminist, queer, and disability theory to ask about the changing category of the Human in the drone age. This is my cat Lou :)
Black cat sitting on coffee table in living room. Cat has big wide yellow eyes
November 13, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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Here’s one to give you a sense of the space and design
Dark gallery room with two stools in the middle. Images are projected on each wall. The images show the inside of a home, a worn in domestic space including a bed, rug, couch, and various other signs of life
November 11, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Excited to chair this timely and urgent discussion between the brilliant Nikita Sonavane & Matt Mahmoudi on transnational approaches to abolition, solidarity, and futures with an emphasis on what the UK and India can learn from one another.
November 22, 2024 6-7pm, followed by drinks SG1, Alison Richards Building policing, technology and power: transnational approaches to abolition. Speakers: Dr Matthew Mahmoudi (Cambridge Digital Humanities) Nikita Sonavane (Visiting Scholar, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence) Dr Amy Gaeta (chair, Centre for Drones and Culture) The panel will trace how carceral technologies and practices refracted between the UK, India, and around the world. It will examine possibilities for transnational solidarity and collaboration, theorising what abolitionist movements in the UK and India can learn from one another and from abolitionist organising in other parts of the world, and how they can support one another in their fight against carceral capitalism and state surveillance. Click here to register https://lu.ma/x62l5my4 or scan the QR code
November 7, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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Cover of special issue for culture, theory, & critique. The cover is a light blue. Below the journal name is the title of the special issue editors and the special issue topic
October 23, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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The Centre for Drones and Culture is now on Instagram.

Please follow us there! We are on Twitter and have not yet joined BlueSky

instagram.com/centrefordro...
A QR code for the Centre’s Instagram page
October 4, 2023 at 2:29 PM
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Excited to announce our first event hosted by the Center for Drones and Culture at U of Cambridge. “The Spectral Turn of Satellites,” featuring the brilliant Dr Mia Bennett!!! The event is on Zoom and open to all. Register at link is below or scan the QR code.
An event poster for an online talk by Dr Mia Bennett. The poster has black colored texted and a cloudy grey-blue background. There is a large satellite image of a lake in the center. The talk is titled “The Spectral Turn of Satellites.” It is hosted by the Centre for Drones and Culture. It details that the talk is on Wednesday, October 18th at 2:30 BST on Zoom. There is a QR code to scan to register in the bottom right hand side of the poster.
September 12, 2023 at 9:29 AM
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We have less than one week left living in America
A black cat is peaking their head from under a blanket
August 18, 2023 at 3:35 PM