Occupying states use engineered chaos and panic as an intelligence-gathering device

Evidence

Israel seems to have perfected the security apparatus of almost absolute surveillance predicated on what might usefully be called controlling chaos. The point is to promote panic among a population or crowd of people, at once observing – gaining insight into – the reactions of members of the multitude. Random attacks in and on depersonalized public places, invasions, unannounced searches, bombs apparently missing targets, purposeful collateral damage, deliberate targeted assassination of moderates. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 673

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Deliberately induced political chaos consolidates rather than weakens the orchestrator’s power — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 442; Moral panic theory explains how state actors manufacture outsized threats; Bureaucratic chaos and anti-Western irrationalism emotionally prepared Europe for totalitarianism — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 626 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Deliberately induced political chaos consolidates rather than weakens the orchestrator’s power #expands (0.82) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 442
• War machines govern populations by immobilizing or scattering them beyond state borders. #expands (0.80) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 139
• A government can manufacture crisis to construct its own people as enemy #expands (0.80) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 111
• Attacks on out-groups divert attention from real crises and expand state power #expands (0.78) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 43
• Manufactured crises enable states to restructure by projecting threat outward. #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 271
• Moral panic theory explains how state actors manufacture outsized threats #complicates (0.75)
• Bureaucratic chaos and anti-Western irrationalism emotionally prepared Europe for totalitarianism #complicates (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 626