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Ontopower - War, Powers, and the State of Perception (Hardcover)
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Ontopower - War, Powers, and the State of Perception (Hardcover)
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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.
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