ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book emphasizes continuities in US struggles for vertical hegemony in the context of the war on terror, and highlights Trump's inflections of these historical processes, particularly his more boisterous and flamboyant approach. It provides ways in which vertical strategies of domination have been challenged, complicated, and resisted, whether by feminists' critiques of US militarism on the airwaves, diffractive readings of geospatial images, condemnations of racial profiling at airport checkpoints, or hiding from infrared drone sensors. The book argues that it is equally important to be able to think about how mediated modes of communication—such as reporting, mapping, and monitoring—materialize dynamically through extensive vertical domains. It suggests that media cannot be understood only through a formalist approach focused on screens and narratives.
