The spatializing practice of terror transpires through varying degrees of the spectacle.  Spectacles of terror enter both the localized and globalized public sphere through an exertion of power executed by force. The spectacle as enacted in a collectively occupied public space affects its individuals in the psychic realm. In the spectacle’s aftermath (train bombings in Madrid, suicide bombings in Tel Aviv, military occupation of the Chiapas countryside), the state apparatus responds to the act by assuming an active and wider mobility in the name of national security to freely impose its will upon the mobility of its citizenry. These impositions manifest through juridical methods and industrial complexes. This mobility has manifested in the sanctioned monitoring of nation or state borders (INS transforming into the Dept. of Homeland Security), the compromising of citizenship rights (to assemble, to travel), and the manufacturing of widespread psychological fear upon its citizenry (the duct tape hysteria). 

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