Politics of Possibility Risk and Security Beyond Probability

Name: Politics of Possibility Risk and Security Beyond Probability
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ISBN: 9780822355601

ISBN-10: 0822355604

ISBN-13: 9780822355601

Edition: 2013

Authors: Louise Amoore

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Since September 11, 2001, the imagination of "low probability, high consequence" events has become a distinctive feature of contemporary politics. Uncertain futures—devastation by terrorist attack, cyber crime, floods, financial market collapse—must be discerned and responded to as possibilities, however probabilistically unlikely they may be. In The Politics of Possibility, Louise Amoore examines this development, tracing its genealogy through the diverse worlds of risk management consulting, computer science, commercial logistics, and data visualization. She focuses on the increasingly symbiotic relationship between commercial opportunities and state security threats, a relation that…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction. On the Politics of Possibility



Techniques



On Authority. Probabilities for a World of Possibility



On Risk. Securing Uncertain Futures



Spaces



On the Line. Life Signatures and the Writing of the Border



On Location. Reconciling Security and Mobility



Effects



On Aesthetics. Security's Objects and the Form of Data



On a Potential Politics. Toward an Ethics of the Unanticipated


Notes


Bibliography


Index