Massumi Ontopower

War, Powers, and the State of Perception
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7519-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

In this original theory of power, Brian Massumi explains how the logic of preemption governs U.S. military policy in the War on Terror and how that logic spills over from the war front to the home front. Threats are now felt into reality and power refocuses on what may emerge. The mode of power embodying the logic of preemption is ontopower.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Massumi, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

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

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Massumi is Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author of The Power at the End of the Economy, What Animals Teach Us about Politics, and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, all also published by Duke University Press.