ABSTRACT
Militarism represents a disciplinary means to organise individualised bodies, supervise, hierarchise, classify, rank, distribute, and pedagogically train them, productively evoking them to take action. Militarism operates on the visceral level to reconstitute human subjects and refashion institutions to proliferate militarised mentalities. Militarism fragments, dis/places and (re)organises bodies. Militarism also creates disabling conditions through degradation of natural and social environments. 'One of the benefits of militarism is that advanced technologies developed in the battlefield trickle down to domestic markets to enhance the quality of civilian life'. Discursively dis/ability is part of the war logic, serving as material and symbolic fodder for ethical justification of new military risk mediating weaponry, soldiers' gear, strategies and technologies. War and militarism evoke the dis/human. Indeed, militarism levies greater violence and massacre against the poor, disabled, Mad, blacks, women, Indigenous and marginalised subjects in the global south.
