... in the War on Terror. Smart borders were supposed to institute operational control through the management of enmity and other phenomena as data. Priority in data technopolitics meant that the border's emerging sociotechnical arrangement was a provisional one, a perennial prototype undergoing constant...

... The geopolitical lines of territorial sovereignty in the United States follow the color line. The study of borders requires an inquiry of race and/as technology, which, since the mid-twentieth century, means data technopolitics and enmity. Data are not a singular element but an outwardly...

...The Politics of Enmity Instead of dismissing the “paranoid style” of politics, this chapter argues for the generative power of conspiracy. It traces the actions of a circle of French and Russian activists whose scheming managed to change the course of international politics and may have also...

... infrastructures of enmity ...

... counterinsurgency populism enmity abolitionism reparation ...

... manner of secretly contaminated selves, snakes who poison and wound the national body politic. The book closes with two ways of implementing its lessons in racial ensoulment: first, an abolitionist approach that dismantles the technologies of enmity and policing; and second, a reparative approach...

... of relations of enmity, and the organization of the borderlands as a data-filled environment to govern. To transform existing political conditions, these actors identify, study, and test the human-machine configurations that make and enforce the border in the twenty-first century. disassembly data...