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This article, moreover, will argue that since neoliberal capitalism is characterised by its application on a micropolitical level of society - something that Deleuze and Guattari understood well - vigilantism has become a set of “practices of the self” which aim at the production of docile-but-vigilant subjectivities.

In order to do this, the article will draw a red line between the different kinds of vigilantism detectable in Miller and Moore’s graphic novels, and it will also try to identify contemporary manifestation of the disciplinary subjectification we are enclosing under the broad definition of “vigilantism”. This article will try to answer the question “who are the watchmen today?”. Frank Miller’s Batman: the Dark Night Returns and Alan Moore’s Watchmen were the first two manifestations of a superhero narrative which problematised the concept of vigilantism in the second part of the 1980s. In the realm of popular culture, the “revisionist superhero comics” provide an appropriate model for our discussion of vigilantism. Conversely, Anders Behring Breivik - who in July 2011 killed some ninety people in Norway - is only the most recent example of an introjected conduct which suddenly becomes ‘visible’ and crystallises in violent outbursts. In the regimes of liberal and neoliberal securitization, the vigilante/overseer also takes the form of a set of dispositifs of security - as part of a broader discursive apparatus - which can control and influence the alleged natural movements of the market.

As a hybrid at the intersection of governmental police and civilians, the vigilante floats between forces which constantly redefine its position within the body of the Leviathan. 'In the composition of a bestiary of contemporary capitalism, the figure of the vigilante should be given particular attention.

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