Every protective power needs those it protects to be vulnerable, even—as all racketeers realize—to the point of actively maintaining this state of vulnerability. But unlike the discourse of protective sovereignty, which begins by introducing the postulate of ontological vulnerability as the original state of its subjects, the starting point of the present critical discourse is political vulnerabilization, the authority's exposure of the lives of its subjects, which becomes the basis for the possibility of it becoming the object of a critique or some kind of limitation.

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 574