“If we see friendship as dangerous, as a technique for undoing the processes of subjectification that make us legible to Empire, then we can begin to understand the tactics that Empire uses to keep us powerless. There is a global counter-insurgency being waged by apparatuses of control concerned by the way that we decadents and lost souls respond with anger and riots to our circumstances. The worst nightmare of Empire is interiority; just as we are concerned that the citizen next to us could transform into a cop at any moment, so is Empire concerned that any citizen might, at any moment, reveal himself to be a terrorist, a hacker, or a looter.”