期刊名称：Liminalities : a Journal of Performance Studies
电子版ISSN：1557-2935
出版年度：2012
卷号：9
期号：4
出版社：Liminalities
摘要：This essay examines an experience unique to Washington, DC: riding the metro and confronting advertisements pitching billion-dollar combat and military information systems. After offering a short thematic analysis of the imaginative geographies of these ads, the essay moves to a discussion of how these ads obscure the emergence of what Stephen Graham calls a “transnational battlespace”—that is, an still-developing American security strategy which aims to integrate the spaces of “homeland” and “other” under a unified regime of digital surveillance. A concluding section discusses in normative terms the implications of current domestic surveillance initiatives on key values associated with a vital city life
