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The Universal Adversary - Security, Capital and 'The Enemies of All Mankind' (Hardcover)
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The Universal Adversary - Security, Capital and 'The Enemies of All Mankind' (Hardcover)
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The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This
book is a radical exploration of an Enemy that has recently emerged
from within security documents released by the US security state:
the Universal Adversary. The Universal Adversary is now central to
emergency planning in general and, more specifically, to security
preparations for future attacks. But an attack from who, or what?
This book - the first to appear on the topic - shows how the
concept of the Universal Adversary draws on several key figures in
the history of ideas, said to pose a threat to state power and
capital accumulation. Within the Universal Adversary there lies the
problem not just of the 'terrorist' but, more generally, of the
'subversive', and what the emergency planning documents refer to as
the 'disgruntled worker'. This reference reveals the conjoined
power of the contemporary mobilisation of security and the defence
of capital. But it also reveals much more. Taking the figure of the
disgruntled worker as its starting point, the book introduces some
of this worker's close cousins - figures often regarded not simply
as a threat to security and capital but as nothing less than the
Enemy of all Mankind: the Zombie, the Devil and the Pirate. In
situating these figures of enmity within debates about security and
capital, the book engages an extraordinary variety of issues that
now comprise a contemporary politics of security. From crowd
control to contagion, from the witch-hunt to the apocalypse, from
pigs to intellectual property, this book provides a compelling
analysis of the ways in which security and capital are organized
against nothing less than the 'Enemies of all Mankind'.
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