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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Duke Univ Pr
Publication date
November 13, 2013
Pages
220
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780822355458
ISBN-10
0822355450
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Original list price
$84.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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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 futuresâdevastation by terrorist attack, cyber crime, flood, financial market collapseâmust be discerned and responded to as possibilities, however improbable 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 turns the trusted, iris-scanned traveler into "a person of national security interest," and the designer of risk algorithms for casino and insurance fraud into a homeland security resource. Juxtaposing new readings of Agamben, Foucault, Derrida, Massumi, and Connolly with interpretations of postâ9/11 novels and artworks, Amoore analyzes the "politics of possibility" and its far-reaching implications for society, associative life, and political accountability.
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Hardcover
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from Duke Univ Pr (November 13, 2013)
9780822355458 | details & prices | 220 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $84.95
About: Since September 11, 2001, the imagination of "low probability, high consequence" events has become a distinctive feature of contemporary politics.
About: Since September 11, 2001, the imagination of "low probability, high consequence" events has become a distinctive feature of contemporary politics.
Paperback
from Duke Univ Pr (November 13, 2013)
9780822355601 | details & prices | 220 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $23.95
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