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::: strategy of truth

In a post-Clausewitzean strategy (where overkill is what MUST be avoided), the living organism itself and its manipulation become the stakes (the object) of war. It is a matter of producing being, and no longer of producing truth. Politics is no longer located in the symbolic but in the biological and the psychic dimension, via electromagnetic energy, etc. The symbolic remains in the form of infowar, i.e. as a strategy of truth and no longer as a regime of truth. The "truth" is constructed pragmatically, productively, as a function of the effects it can produce. In this sense, it becomes impossible to believe in the antagonism between a regime of truth (claiming authenticity and deriving from the symbolic) and a strategy of truth (which doesn't care if the truth is true, and is concerned more with the distribution, circulation and effects of a message, than with its production).

> Wars of Information

"For soldiers, the primary aim of information is decision-making, and therefore action. The better the information (and therefore, the better the intelligence agency), the better the decisions.... An offensive information war seeks to affect the information circulating on the other side or toward the other side, so that 'their' decisions will be to 'our' advantage. The defensive war of information consists in keeping 'them' from doing the same thing against 'us.'" (Michel Wautelet, "D‚sinformation et cyberconflits," Observatoire Europ‚en d'Infostrat‚gie, strategic-road.com) Information war is carried out on an essential data-treatment system: the human body. "The body is capable not only of being deceived, manipulated, or misinformed but also shut down or destroyed - just as any other data-processing system. The "data" the body receives from external sources - such as electromagnetic, vortex, or acoustic energy waves - or creates through its own electrical or chemical stimuli can be manipulated or changed just as the data (information) in any hardware system can be altered." (Timothy L. Thomas, "The Mind Has No Firewall," Parameters, U.S. Army War College, 1998)

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