Environmentality: Military Maneuvers, the Ecosystem, and the Accidental

This essay argues that current efforts by United States security institutions and the security society to adopt climate change as a central mandate have begun to reformulate radically the constitution of the citizen-subject. State-formed life and the liberatory pole of citizen-subject life face a collapse in this reformulation that pulls the citizen-subject away from its relation to a groundless liberation. The action around which this separation of the citizen-subject from "permanent revolution" (Balibar) occurs is what the essay calls, after Virilio, "The Accidental." The Accidental is a name for the colonization of groundless liberation, and manifests in the security society's deployment of the accident of global ecological crisis as a naturalized enemy of the State.