Once the state apparatus thus becomes, in effect, simply an apparatus, it would finally have acquired a body that corresponded to its very essence: the cold body of a cold monster. It would at last technically fulfill its fundamental tendency. As Engels wrote, “This power, arisen out of society, but placing itself above it and increasingly alienating itself from it, is the state.”

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 701