In 1992, Mbembe’s “Provisional Notes on the Postcolony” defined postcolonial commandment as – among others – a regime ruled by death, characterized by illicit cohabitation, and engaging commander and citizens in a playful relationship that toyed with simulacra. In how far are these characteristics valuable for the experience of contemporary Congolese politics, in an era where electronic communication has increased possibilities of governance and critique? In recent years, as the contemporary political regime in DR Congo has been successfully delaying the organization of new elections, Kinshasa’s inhabitants are experiencing a renewed form of deep political violence enacted by the state very similar to the political climate of the early Kabila years. Confusion and intimidation are often coined by Kinshasa’s residents as the main technologies of the contemporary leadership. Military blockades allowing for car searches for weapons, and pedestrians being subjected to mobile phone searches for anti-Kabila content, reveal how the current political commandment penetrates daily life and also uses surveillance as a main technique of subjectivation. This paper aims at assessing the co-habitation of Kinshasa’s residents with a leadership many of them deem to be foreign and experience to be hostile to them. I aim to rethink postcolonial violence in the electronic era, where smartphones and digital communication are playing a role in state-society interactions, as these not only express but also mediate – sometimes playfully and sometimes violently – the relationships between the state, Congolese citizens in the country, and the diaspora.