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
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-285) and index
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