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Cover: 9780822359951 | Ontopower | War, Powers, and the State of Perception | Brian Massumi

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Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through an in-depth examination of the War on Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi identifies the emergence of preemption, which he characterizes as the operative logic of our time. Security threats, regardless of the existence of credible intelligence, are now felt into reality. Whereas nations once waited for a clear and present danger to emerge before using force, a threat's felt reality now demands launching a preemptive strike. Power refocuses on what may emerge, as that potential presents itself to feeling. This affective logic of potential washes back from the war front to become the dominant mode of power on the home front as well. This is ontopower-the mode of power embodying the logic of preemption across the full spectrum of force, from the "hard" (military intervention) to the "soft" (surveillance). With Ontopower, Massumi provides an original theory of power that explains not only current practices of war but the culture of insecurity permeating our contemporary neoliberal condition.

Über den Autor

Brian Massumi is Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He specializes in the philosophy of experience, art and media theory, and political philosophy. His most recent books include Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception (2015), Politics of Affect (2015), and The Power at the End of the Economy (2014).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Part One: Powers

1. The Primacy of Preemption: The Operative Logic of Threat 3

2. National Enterprise Emergency: Steps toward an Ecology of Powers 21

Part Two: Powers of Perception

3. Perception Attack: The Force to Own Time 63

4. Power to the Edge: Making Information Pointy 93

5. Embodiments and History 153

Part Three: The Power to Affect

6. Fear (The Spectrum Said) 171

7. The Future Birth of the Affective Fact 189

Afterword: After the Long Past: A Retrospective Introduction to the History of the Present 207

Notes 247

References 275

Index 287

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