Sayak Valencia reads the border between Mexico and the US in Tijuana as a case study of the relationship between hyperviolence and law, militarization and the commodification of death, geopolitical borders, and the ‘post colonies,’ norm and exception, the state of war and states of security and freedom. Gore Capitalism is a critical gospel for a world of centralized hegemonic superpowers that engender and fuel hyper-masculine violence in an ever-expanding precarious and volatile periphery.