No abstract

No abstract

This article examines the ''aesthetic'' and ''prescient'' turn in the surveillant assemblage and the various ways in which risk technologies in local law enforcement are reshaping the post hoc traditions of the criminal justice system. The rise of predictive policing and crime prevention software illustrate not only how the world of risk management solutions for public security is shifting from sovereign borders to inner-city streets but also how the practices of authorization are allowing software systems to become proxy forms of sovereign power. The article also examines how corporate strategies and law enforcement initiatives align themselves through media, connectivity, and consumer-oriented opt-in strategies that endeavor to ''mold'' and ''deputize'' ordinary individuals into obedient and patriotic citizens.

This article examines the War on Terror and US response strategies of discreet war through the lens of the Special Forces video game as a site of contestation between the real and the imaginary world, the nation-state and market-state, the West and the Rest. While mainstream films and news media increasingly pay homage to discreet war, the author argues that the Special Forces shooter goes a step further, by providing a participatory middle ground that seeks to naturalize and legitimize covert force solutions as acceptable instruments of statecraft. Thus, the intention of this article is to analyze the various ways in which the aesthetics and politics of the Special Forces shooter organizes, structures, and legitimates frameworks of subjecthood and sovereignty.

No abstract