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Feminist IR theory exposes this relationship in graphic terms. Feminists argue that
there is a close connection between “manly men, states and war” (True, 2001:237), as
part of a system which privileges certain meaning and values, partly by associating
them with masculinity
Today’s warfare is “logistical”. It does not simply fight an enemy on an existing terrain,
but seeks to rearrange space so as to prevent the enemy from acting (Virilio 1986: 117
18, 145). Applied against the military’s own society, this leads to “endocolonialism”
In Virilio’s (1990: 73) terms, the role of security discourse is to
suppress the distinctness of civilian society, and place it under military command.
In Virilio’s (1990: 73) terms, the role of security discourse is to
suppress the distinctness of civilian society, and place it under military command.
seeking to eliminate chance and contingency from social relations (ibid.18-19). War is the origin of totalitarianism, because it has become an attempt to deny others dialogue, the chance to rework perspectives, instead seeking to control the adversary by redefining their space
A similar theory of the state as viewing social life as risk can be found in Virilio. For
him, the military class struggles against the “badly-defined collection of freedoms, risks
and uncertainties” of spontaneity in an environment.
(p. 641) with the focal point
‘disclosing the mechanisms of power through which particular discursive regimes of
truth produce and naturalize hierarchies and the political inequalities that flow from
them’ (p.642).
differentiated social and political roles shaping behavior (a logic of positionality); and
hierarchy as a productive political space or structure (a logic of productivity). In
Mattern and Zarakol (2016), ‘the feature of hierarchies most central to the logic of
productivity
This article examines how hierarchy operates as a productive political structure in state
securitization, within the third logic of Mattern and Zarakol’s (2016: 623) three logics,
within which hierarchy operates in International Relations scholarship