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Ontopower : war, powers, and the state of perception / Brian Massumi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Massumi, Brian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power (Social sciences)--United States--History--21st century.
- Power (Social sciences).
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- National security--United States--History--21st century.
- National security.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>In this original theory of power, Brian Massumi explains how the logic of preemption governs U.S. military policy in the War on Terror and how that logic spills over from the war front to the home front. Threats are now felt into reality and power refocuses on what may emerge. The mode of power embodying the logic of preemption is ontopower.</div>
- Contents:
- The primacy of preemption : the operative logic of threat
- National enterprise emergency : steps toward an ecology of powers
- Power to the edge : making information pointy
- Embroilments and history
- Fear (the spectrum said)
- The future birth of the affective fact
- Afterword. After the long past: a retrospective introduction to the history of the present.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375197
- 0822375192
- OCLC:
- 1154331325
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