Securing the Political Imagination: Popular Culture, the Security Dispositif and the Biometric State
Securing the Political Imagination: Popular Culture, the Security Dispositif and the Biometric State
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确保政治想象力：大众文化、安全机制和生物识别国家
DOI：
10.1177/0967010608088775
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Benjamin J Muller
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作者：
Benjamin J Muller
在新兴的安全配置中，流行文化与依赖风险管理作为治理框架之间的关系是什么？此外，人们如何理解文化和文化力量对新兴生物识别国家的影响以及其中所谓的安全必要性？本文认为，新兴的安全配置，以及维持和塑造它的相关想象和文化表演，对于这里所说的“生物特征状态”的产生至关重要。在对风险技术和风险管理实践的痴迷的推动下，生物识别状态的定义是虚拟边界的普遍存在，以及对护照、可信旅行者计划和国民身份证等生物识别标识符的依赖，以及伴随这些操作的社会分类形式。本文提出了连接两种相关的安全配置-地缘政治和生命政治-的便利婚姻，并分别考虑了它们的所指对象：国家和日常生活之间的关系。更具体地说，随着文章断言大众文化的构成可能性，维持新兴安全配置不可或缺的大众文化构成了分析的核心。
What is the relationship between popular culture and the reliance on risk management as a framework for governance in the emerging security dispositif? Furthermore, how is one to understand the influence of culture and cultural forces in relation to the emerging biometric state and the alleged security imperatives therein? This article contends that the emerging security dispositif, and the associated imaginations and cultural performances that sustain and shape it, are vital to the production of what is referred to here as the `biometric state'. Motivated by an obsession with technologies of risk and practices of risk management, the biometric state is defined by the prevalence of virtual borders and reliance on biometric identifiers such as passports, trusted-traveller programmes and national ID cards, as well as the forms of social sorting that accompany these manoeuvres. Raising the marriage of convenience that connects two related dispositifs of security — geopolitics and biopolitics — the article considers the relationship between their referent objects: the state and everyday life, respectively. More specifically, popular culture integral to sustaining the emerging security dispositif forms the core of the analysis, as the article asserts the constitutive possibilities of popular culture.