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Administration of Fear

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ISBN-10: 1584351055

ISBN-13: 9781584351054

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paul Virilio, Bertrand Richard, Ames Hodges

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We are living under the administration of fear: fear has become an environment, an everyday landscape. There was a time when wars, famines, and epidemics were localized and limited by a certain timeframe. Today, it is the world itself that is limited, saturated, and manipulated, the world itself that seizes us and confines us with a stressful claustrophobia. Stock-market crises, undifferentiated terrorism, lightning pandemics, "professional" suicides.... Fear has become the world we live in.The administration of fear also means that states are tempted to create policies for the orchestration and management of fear. Globalization has progressively eaten away at the traditional prerogatives…    
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Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Semiotexte/Smart Art
Publication date: 2/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 4.75" wide x 7.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English

Paul Virilio has published twenty-five books, including Pure War (his first in English) and The Accident of Art, both written with Sylv�re Lotringer, as well as the new edition of The Aesthetics of Disappearance, all published by Semiotext(e).