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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Massumi, Brian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009.
Nationale veiligheid.
Terrorisme.
Politieke filosofie.
Abschreckung
Sicherheitspolitik
Bekämpfung
Terrorismus
Power (Social sciences)
National security.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
National security > United States > History > 21st century.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Power (Social sciences) > United States > History > 21st century.
Verenigde Staten.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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