Security and the future: Anticipating the event of terror
Security and the future: Anticipating the event of terror
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DOI:
10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.11.002
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发表时间:
2010-03-01
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Anderson, Ben
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作者:
Anderson, Ben
This paper explores the relation between processes Of Security and futurity in the context of efforts to govern the complexity and contingency of events of terror it argues that processes of securing function by generating a dangerous or promissory supplement to the present that thereafter propels the extension Of forms Of Security The paper develops this argument through all example of how all event of terror was anticipated a RAND exercise into the aftermath of a 'ground burst' nuclear explosion in Long Beach, California on March 14th 2005 It argues that exercises (in)secure through three quasi-causal operations, each of which render events of terror actionable and result in specific relations between the present and future. First. 'hypothetically possible' generic events are named The future takes place as a threatening horizon. Second. the defined phases of an event's happening are staged (an advent. its multiplication into a Crisis in the context of a milieu, and a response/recovery phase) The here and now IS Suspended between an 'as if' future and the present. Third. the consequences of the event are played. The future is both all intensified 'practical' presence embodied by exercise participants and all outside that exceeds attempts to definitively know it The conclusion summarises the implications of the paper for work oil futurity. security and the event. (C) 2009 Elsevier, Ltd. All rights reserved