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Ontopower : War, Powers, and the State of Perception /

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 embo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Massumi, Brian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.