In his essay "Preliminary Thoughts on the Congo Crisis" (ST 17, 1999), Mahmood Mamdani proposed a postcolonial structure of flexible enfranchisement bifurcated between civic and ethnic membership as a disparate allocation of political subjecthood between the individuated citizen and diverse ethnic multitudes. Under the pressures of globalization and the subsequent hegemonic expansion of the war on terror, this model mutates into a distinction between the citizen as a fully present, frequently biopoliticized subject and the dangerous encrypted and collectivized body of the infiltrating minoritized sleeper or mole who infests the host body of the nation-state citizen, rendering it both mutable and a hostage. Mamdani posed a structuring enemy as an in situ yet disavowed parasitical core of state reproduction that legitimated the state's own turn to terror. Almost a decade prior to this, Mick Taussig, in "Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as a State of Siege" (ST 23, 1989), pointed out that the securocratic state, in contrast to the disciplinary state, conscripted terror for reconstituting power as "an opportunistic positionless position which recognizes that the terror in such disruption is no less than that of the order it is bent on eliminating." Both Mamdani and Taussig approached political "terror" not as a political crime but as a formation guarding against the loss of the political in the violent countermeasures it enabled. Taussig describes this emerging political aesthesis as a "nervous system (facing) one way toward hysteria, the other way toward numbing and apparent acceptance, both ways flip-sides of terror, the political Art 

of the Arbitrary, as usual."