Description
In the midst of the ongoing mass violence perpetrated by the Israeli state, private corporate entities continue to find themselves deeply entwined with the military apparatus. Not only do they find themselves providing many of the products and services used by the state, but more and more frequently they are becoming key cogs in the pursuit of extended strategic goals. What place do these private companies then occupy in the landscape of contemporary empire? This paper investigates the discursive self-representation that a selection of Israeli companies engages in, constructing a nexus of threats that constitute a general “global crisis” and their position as part of a framework of solutions to be implemented across the world. The analysis will subsequently identify this process as part of the formation of an apparatus of the laboratory, a strategy for the preservation and proliferation of empire in the moment of contemporary capital.
