...Beatrice Jauregui This article theorizes ongoing US-led global warfare as a “positive science” based in communal, familial, and humanistic values manifest in outreach practices conducted by the US Army. Analyzing the history of recruitment and recently developed resilience training and civil...

... of this endeavor is the problem of cultural mediation through which the slippery notions of “us” and “them” or “friend” and “foe” are constructed and materialized. While such simulations of identity create effects of the real, they also elude definitive capture or specific localization. Beckett’s photographs...

... Fitness: US Army Family Humanism and the Positive Science of Persistent War” critiques the emergence of a new military emphasis on civil-military communal experience and holistic health, in which the praxis of warfare turns toward the production of the “well-being” of soldiers and citizens who must be fit...

...Figure 1 One of Harold Fisk’s maps of the Mississippi River’s historical meandering, created in 1944 for the US Army Corps of Engineers. Retrieved June 5, 2015, from lmvmapping.erdc.usace.army.mil. ...

... it, but Christia’s work is one aspect of a larger project affiliated with the US Army Research Office. It addresses the apparent need for “a framework for analysis, prediction, and ultimately control of socio-political phenomena” ( “ARO MURI” 2014 , 2016 ). Knowledge is possession. De Certeau referred...

... , ed. 2008 . Global Climate Change: National Security Implications . Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College . www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub862.pdf . Quigley John . Spectral Q: Collaborative Art for the Common Good . www.spectralq.com...

..., statecraft, and gender. In the 1940s, the US Army Chemical Corps commissioned HEPA's creation in service to a highly classified heteronormative domestic scene. The army needed a new filtration technology in order to protect and calm special communities of military scientists—usually male engineers...

... of their economic slump. Moreover, President Kim Dae-Jung’s robust efforts to honor the legacy of Park Chung-hee indicate that the narrative about manly “redemption” cultivated during the Park era is still being used as a solution to all kinds...

... of salaries. The soldiers in the two armies, in other words, were paid with fundamentally dif- ferent forms of wealth: wages or salaries in exchange for military service, used to procure their monetary equivalent in the form of commodities and consumer goods (the prices of which rose continually...

..., fluidity and solidity, the future and also the past: “The techniques developed by the Ninth Cavalry Squadron— the scout ship/gunship combination . . . the use of aero-rifle platoons to develop situations to the point where conventional infantry units could be profitably com- mitted—meant that the Army...

... in Palestine, a laboratory for creative, nonviolent resistance. I am glad to be going back. But will we make it? As always, the army has sent a large detachment of sol- diers to stop us. They turn up shortly after we climb, on foot...

... it with love and in an act of solidarity with the army jumped fearlessly atop army tanks and armored vehicles surrounding Tahrir Square, challenging the dictatorship of Husni Mubarak. Eight months later, in October, these same army vehicles were used to crush Egyptian civilians in what came to be known...

... responded to President Harry Truman’s decision to focus on nuclear deterrence and technological superiority rather than on diplo- macy or a continued mass industrial army m0de1.I~These policy decisions prompted early and heavy defense use of emerging computer technologies that generated many...

..., declaring sugar an "essential war commodity" in order to justify deploying the army during the strike. Against Identity As we approach my brief manifesto against identity fetishism in current scholar- ship, let us first...

... Breckenridge, and Françoise Vergès. Excerpts were presented at seminars and workshops in Evanston, Chicago, New York, New Haven, and Johannesburg. Useful criticisms were provided by Paul Gilroy, Dilip Para- meshwar Gaonkar, Beth Povinelli, Ben Lee, Charles Taylor, Crawford Young, Abdoumaliq Simone, Luc...