[D66] Field of Battle

[R.O.]

  Sergio González Rodríguez

Sergio González Rodríguez (1950–2017), was a writer, journalist, and 
critic for the Mexico City newspaper /Reforma/. His works include /The 
Iguala 43/ and /The Femicide Machine/ (both published by Semiotext(e)).

Field of Battle <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/field-battle>


      Field of Battle <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/field-battle>

Sergio González Rodríguez 
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/sergio-gonzalez-rodriguez> 2019

*The emergence of a geopolitical war scenario, establishing a form of 
global governance that utilizes methods of surveillance and control.*

In times of war the law is silent.—from /Field of Battl/e

/Field of Battle/ presents the world today as nothing less than a war in 
progress, with Mexico an illustrative microcosm of the developing 
geopolitical scenario: a battlefield in which violence, drug 
trafficking, and organized crime—as well as the alegal state that works 
alongside all of this in the guise of fighting against it—hold sway. The 
rule of law has been replaced by the dominance of alegality and the rise 
of the “a-state.”

This war scenario is establishing a form of global governance that 
utilizes methods of surveillance and control developed by the United 
States government and enforced through its global network of military 
bases and the multinational corporations that work in synergy with its 
espionage agencies. Geopolitics take advantage of social instability, 
drug cartels, state repression, and paramilitarism to establish the 
foundations of a world order.

Sergio González Rodríguez argues that this surveillance and control 
model has been imposed on the international community through extreme 
neoliberal ideology, free markets, the globalized economy, and the rise 
of the information society. The threats are clear. Nation-states are 
increasingly unable to respond to societal needs, and the individual has 
been displaced by money and technique—the axis of the transhumanist 
future foretold by today's electronic devices. The human being as the 
prosthesis of an artificial world and as an object of networks and 
systems: citizens are the victims of a perverse vision of reality, 
caught between the defense of their rights and their will to insurrection.

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