...Militarism, Empire, and War<subtitle>The Security State and States of Insecurity</subtitle> This essay examines the devolution of immigrant detention and deportation efforts domestically and internationally. It addresses the outsourcing of detention operations to surrogate jailers and the use...

... This chapter describes the way that insecurity both functions as a deep psychic wound and generates affect, which serves as a register for repair. The inhabitants of eastern Congo have always lived in a menacing environment, at the foot of an active volcano, on the shores of a methane-containing...