ABSTRACT
The post-subject of Empire is the agent of a deregulated economy, society and ludic identity surfing upon class, gender and race as flows of virtuality and style. The fulfilment of Empire is achieved with the privatization of the post-industrial commons, which includes the welfare state. With the double violation of American soil and symbols in New York and Washington, President Bush was re-elected to suture American civil solidarity to American aggression, refamilialize American security while projecting it once again to the far corners of the American Empire. A similar objection might be made to the Krokers’ thesis on terrorism as a deterritorialized viral power unleashed by the collapse of Cold War nuclearism and stalled Empire. Yet the justice of Empire is exercised through a hybrid militarized police function whose task is to quell ‘anarchic’ elements at home and to conquer once and for all ‘evil’ elements abroad.
