some point, today’s deterritorialized and endless war may mutate into an unprecedented new system: rule and surveillance by one or several powers across an astonishingly large arc of the world’s surface, patrolled by armed drones or paid visits by the Special Forces acting as quasi-permanent military police. Indeed, even if barely foreseeable today, our time has brought into view a possibility that we might greet with relief if it were not so unsettling, too: a future of war beyond killing.
