The book addresses the following question: What has been the relation of the state vis-à-vis its citizens and non-citizens after 9/11? Using the theoretical lens of three conceptual categories, namely, trauma, biopolitics and visuality, the study points to the normativising function that the US state performs after the 9/11 atrocity. Each of these conceptual categories is used to correspond to the condition of the mind, the body and the body politic respectively. The book makes a special reference to sites of incarceration such as Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib as 9/11 phenomena. The book argues that the state - defined as a governmentalised complex of various institutions and networks - uses the moment of crises and harnesses it towards its own political ends: the hijacking is thereby highjacked by the state in three different ways. These three modes are discussed in detail through the concepts of trauma, biopolitics and visuality. In each of the three maneuvers, it argues that there is a similar move: the state seeks to interpellate and govern the human subject from the non-human subject. It also seeks to transpose metaphorically the category of the human onto itself.