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<h1 class="author-block__title">Sergio González Rodríguez</h1>
<p class="author-block__desc"> Sergio González Rodríguez
(1950–2017), was a writer, journalist, and critic for the
Mexico City newspaper <i>Reforma</i>. His works include <i>The
Iguala 43</i> and <i>The Femicide Machine</i> (both
published by Semiotext(e)). </p>
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Battle </a></h3>
<span class="sm-teaser__meta sm-teaser__meta--first"> <a
href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/sergio-gonzalez-rodriguez"><span>Sergio
González Rodríguez</span></a> </span> <time
class="sm-teaser__meta" content="2019-04-30"
datetime="2019-04-30">2019</time>
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<p> <b>The emergence of a geopolitical war scenario,
establishing a form of global governance that utilizes
methods of surveillance and control.</b> </p>
<p>In times of war the law is silent.—from <i>Field of Battl</i>e</p>
<p> <i>Field of Battle</i> 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of law has been replaced by the dominance of alegality and the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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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