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The Politics of Possibility : Risk and Security Beyond Probability
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amoore, Louise.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations--Risk assessment.
- National security--Technological innovations.
- Terrorism--Prevention--Technological innovations.
- International relations.
- National security.
- Terrorism--Technological innovations--Prevention.
- Terrorism.
- Local Subjects:
- International relations--Risk assessment.
- National security--Technological innovations.
- Terrorism--Prevention--Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Dissects the post 9/11 symbiosis between the state and private security firms, and its basis: the conviction that uncertainties-devastation by terrorist attack, financial market collapse-must be discerned and preempted, however unlikely they may be.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On the Politics of Possibility; Part I. Techniques; Chapter 1. On Authority: Probabilities for a World of Possibility; Chapter 2. On Risk: Securing Uncertain Futures; Part II. Spaces; Chapter 3. On The Line: Life Signatures and the Writing of the Border; Chapter 4. On Location: Reconciling Security and Mobility; Part III. Effects; Chapter 5. On Aesthetics: Security's Objects and the Form of Data; Chapter 6. On A Potential Politics: Toward an Ethics of the Unanticipated; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822377269
- 0822377268
- OCLC:
- 1202624594
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