Under the Sign of Security

Abstract

This chapter picks up on three ideas which dominate contemporary debates: anxiety, trauma and resilience. It links these ideas to the ways in which contemporary war has shifted and the ways in which political subjectivity is now policed. In particular, it suggests that we are being trained in becoming resilient, most notably in being resilient to the predicted traumas with which we will be faced. Hence the chapter shows that we are now policed as subjects through the ideas of resilience, anxiety and trauma. This policing is central to the new forms of capital as well as new mechanism of state power. Through such policing we are being prepared as the new subjects of war and capital.