Lauren Wilcox

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Lauren Wilcox is a leading scholar at the intersection of feminist international relations, critical security studies, and posthuman political theory. Her work fundamentally challenges how we understand violence, technology, and the human in global politics. Her most influential contribution, "Drones, Swarms and Becoming-Insect" (2017, 63 citations), reimagines the politics of drone warfare by drawing on feminist and posthuman thought, arguing that the swarm metaphor reveals new forms of political agency beyond the human. This piece has become essential reading for scholars examining the entanglement of technology, gender, and war. In her more recent work, "No Humans in the Loop" (2023), Wilcox critically deconstructs the US military’s claim that autonomous weapons retain human control, exposing how the "human in the loop" discourse actually legitimizes violence while obscuring responsibility. Her research consistently pushes boundaries, offering utopian and critical alternatives to militarized techno-politics. Wilcox’s scholarship is distinguished by its theoretical sophistication and its urgent political relevance, making her a vital voice for students and researchers seeking to understand the future of war, embodiment, and resistance in a technological age.