Noam Dorr, a former cryptographer, explores the strange experience of Middle East conflict driven in part by cutting-edge technology. In Love Drones, Noam Dorr explores the troubling relationship between our desire for intimacy and the world of military action, state violence, and intelligence surveillance. Born and raised on a kibbutz in Israel, Dorr served a compulsory military term as an intelligence analyst, tapped for his skill with translation. This is reflected in the book with form-bending interwoven essays that retrace the fragments of a bomb that never explodes, grenades concealed as oranges, and drones thatare simultaneously sound, insect, and lethal aircraft-essays searching for human connection within a landscape of violent conflict. It is a deeply intimate and unsettling book. | Love Drones by Noam Dorr, Paperback | Indigo Chapters