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Liquid Terrorism: The World Turned Upside Down

In 1991, Tim Luke wrote an article entitled "The Discipline of Security Studies and the Codes of Containment: Learning From Kuwait." In the introduction, Luke argued that modern industrial society was being transformed by what he called "informationalism." The old organizational logic was anchored to place with power, drawing boundaries around space and erecting monetary, military, and managerial fences (i.e., the nation-state), while the new logic was "nested in flexible accumulation, rapid and intense flows of ideas, good, symbols, people, images, and money on a global scale." This informational capacity was supposedly the emerging basis of US hegemony.

In 2000...