Th e second link between war and debt is really just the obverse of the first: alongside debts imposed in order to make war, there are debts imposed in order to keep the peace.

the only arena in which “moral and legal” justifications can be adjudicated is a “public sphere” emptied of all effective mechanisms of answerability

the dimension of spectacle has never before interfered so palpably, so insistently, with the business of keeping one’s satrapies in order

it seemed like a case of old-fashioned brinksmanship, warning “partisans of the deed” that the state itself can match their boldness and ferocity

the impression that there is only one way to address global poverty (let’s call it messianic neoliberalism)

From moment to moment, television has an ineluctable way of making connections, sometimes surprising and sometimes not surprising at all.

The so-called Washington Consensus, confidently enforced by the IMF, World Bank, and other economic institutions since the 1970s, has been comprehensively challenged from within the ranks of its own practitioners.

In order to start thinking about the relationship between indebted- ness, visibility, and space, we can turn to an essay by Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on Control Societies” (1990).

disciplinary society has its Panopticon, the extension of carceral logic from the penal system outward into all institutions of social conditioning

The key point hinges on the multivalent distinction between enclosure and indebtedness