Knowbotic Research's ‘naked bandit/here, not here/white sovereign’ focuses on the mechanisms of detainment of so-called 'unlawful enemy combatants' who can be regarded as ‘here’ and, at the same time, 'elsewhere', not anymore on the territory of the nation state, and thus banned, stripped off from the legal framework which the nation state guarantees ('naked bandit'). The project investigates the mechanisms of such an inclusive exclusion and the inherent formations of power. By remodelling these specific formalisms in software code, the artists are able to offer different possible scenarios for the liberation of the ‘naked bandit’. It's obvious that the solution cannot be applied to the prison situation. However this tension of the hypothetical is crucial to the aesthetic of the work.