Mobilizing for War: Targets, Enemies and Exceptional Legislations
<p>In this conversation, Derek Gregory shares with us a few aspects of his simultaneously broad and precise knowledge of the ways war function. We examine together the current so-called “war on terror” in which the United States and their allies have engaged since 2001. Derek distinguishes three spaces that need to be produced in order for war to operate physically and apparently legitimately. We first consider a drone as an object crystalizing both the paradigm of contemporary war, but also the vessel of all wrongly posed questions that perpetuate the <em>status quo</em>. All disciplines are mobilized for war: geography, technology, architecture, law, anthropology, and medicine are those that we evoke for the purposes of this discussion but many more also apply to this rule—and to some degree can be thought as being produced by war themselves. For Derek, the means of resistance to the mechanisms of war consist in the deconstruction of its imaginary production, that is the definitive and absolute status of otherness applied to the targeted population.</p>
Host: Léopold Lambert
Guests: Derek Gregory
Part of: The Funambulist Podcast