Conjunctures of Crime and War: Mapping Circuits of Neoliberal Armed Force in Kawamata Chiaki, Héctor Tobar, and William Gibson

This essay examines intersections of warfare, policing, and crime in the work of Kawamata Chiaki, Héctor Tobar, and William Gibson. Locating novels by these authors at the crossroads of war writing and crime fiction, the article rethinks transformations around armed force during the consolidation of neoliberalism. The analysis places these writers into conversation across a global canvas, using their work to outline a contemporary rearticulation of antiwar politics and casting the latter as a potential site of convergence for struggles in the present around populist nationalism, militarized policing, and digital surveillance.