This article explores the fabrication of ‘sensate regimes of war’, concentrating on the typically under-analysed sense of smell. Smell is a sensory mode capable of apprehending potential threat and enmity in ways that are orthogonal to other ways of sensing. Accordingly, the organization and interpretation of olfactory sensation occupies a distinctive place in war. The article details a particular genealogy of martial olfaction, exploring the olfactory capacities of soldiers and their augmentation through various non-human and technological means in specific milieus of combat. It notes how the distinctive affordances of smell have underpinned numerous wartime practices, from tracing improvised explosive devices to militarized manhunting. These developments supplement and trouble ocularcentric accounts of martial sensation and power that concentrate on the increasingly abstracted co-production of vision and violence in wartime. They highlight rather the significance of an alternative ontology of the signature or trace of enmity, and emphasize how in particular warscapes to smell is to kill. The article concludes by arguing that critical inquiry into war would benefit from a broader theorization of all its sensate regimes right across a sensorium that is itself being continuously transformed through war.

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感人的战争政权：嗅觉、追踪和暴力

本文探讨了“感官战争制度”的制造，重点关注通常未被充分分析的嗅觉。嗅觉是一种感知模式，能够以与其他感知方式正交的方式感知潜在的威胁和敌意。因此，嗅觉的组织和解释在战争中占有独特的地位。文章详细介绍了军事嗅觉的特定谱系，探索了士兵的嗅觉能力及其在特定战斗环境中通过各种非人类和技术手段增强的嗅觉能力。它指出了独特的嗅觉是如何支持许多战时实践的，从追踪简易爆炸装置到军事化搜捕。这些发展补充并扰乱了以眼睛为中心的军事感觉和力量的描述，这些描述集中在战时视觉和暴力的日益抽象的共同生产上。他们反而强调了签名或敌意痕迹的替代本体论的重要性，并强调了嗅觉特别是战争场景是如何杀死的。文章最后指出，对战争的批判性调查将受益于对战争的所有感官机制进行更广泛的理论化，整个感官机制本身正在通过战争不断转变。