In Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, and Performance (2003), seminal literary critic and queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick coins the term ‘paranoid reading’ to describe the tendency of critics to see their objects of study as having some inherent awe that the critic must unmask. This paranoid reading, contended Sedgwick, deeply prevents critics’ capacity to sense and explore the other sides of an object of study, and most importantly to be open to being surprised by one. In turn, Sedgwick advocates for reparative reading as a mode of reading wherein the critic pushes aside their paranoia and stays open to the internal contradictions and surprises of an object of study. While Kathrin Maurer does not explicitly cite Sedgwick as part of her methodology in The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities (MIT Press, 2023), Maurer certainly captures the spirit of it by providing a rich, compelling reparative reading of drone technology and the communities they enable.