Dejan Lukic is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Reed College, Oregon, USA.

An extended and highly original meditation on the ambiguous figure of the hostage in modern life. -- Faisal Devji, Reader in Modern South Asian History at the University of Oxford, UK

• Preface: DiagrammaticIntensifications \ 1. "Being on the Lookout", the Animal \ 2. Biopotentialityand the Enemy \ 3. Architectonics of Hostage-Space \ 4. The Movement of theBlack Stone \ 5. Delirium of Air \ 6. The New Weapon \ 7. Sovereign, Of theOutside \ 8. Taking, Seizing, The Event \ 9. Cry, the Inhuman \ Bibliography \Index

Dejan Lukic is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Reed College, Oregon, USA.

An extended and highly original meditation on the ambiguous figure of the hostage in modern life. -- Faisal Devji, Reader in Modern South Asian History at the University of Oxford, UK

• Preface: DiagrammaticIntensifications \ 1. "Being on the Lookout", the Animal \ 2. Biopotentialityand the Enemy \ 3. Architectonics of Hostage-Space \ 4. The Movement of theBlack Stone \ 5. Delirium of Air \ 6. The New Weapon \ 7. Sovereign, Of theOutside \ 8. Taking, Seizing, The Event \ 9. Cry, the Inhuman \ Bibliography \Index

Dejan Lukic is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Reed College, Oregon, USA.

An extended and highly original meditation on the ambiguous figure of the hostage in modern life. -- Faisal Devji, Reader in Modern South Asian History at the University of Oxford, UK

• Preface: DiagrammaticIntensifications \ 1. "Being on the Lookout", the Animal \ 2. Biopotentialityand the Enemy \ 3. Architectonics of Hostage-Space \ 4. The Movement of theBlack Stone \ 5. Delirium of Air \ 6. The New Weapon \ 7. Sovereign, Of theOutside \ 8. Taking, Seizing, The Event \ 9. Cry, the Inhuman \ Bibliography \Index