Abstract
This article offers a contemporary contextual reading of Mark 5:1-20 that responds to the troubling development of a military-digital mode of surveillance. I start by reflecting on how three different reading strategies help us to understand the complex ontology of violence presented in this gospel episode. I then face and name our contemporary reality, noting how the nexus of digital surveillance and militarism combines in the emergence of the military-digital age and observing how this military-digital mode of surveillance exercises violence upon all caught up in its stare. Finally, I reflect on how the gospel text, through re-shaping our imaginations, encourages communities of discipleship to find ways to engage creatively with this contemporary violence, thereby witnessing to God's inbreaking Kingdom of non-violence.