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Creating Insecurity - Data Browser 04 (Paperback, New)
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Creating Insecurity - Data Browser 04 (Paperback, New)
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'Today we are facing extreme and most dangerous developments in the
thought of security. In the course of a gradual neutralisation of
politics and the progressive surrender of traditional tasks of the
state, security imposes itself as the basic principle of state
activity. What used to be one among several decisive measures of
public administration until the first half of the twentieth
century, now becomes the sole criterion of political legitimation.
The thought of security entails an essential risk. A state which
has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile
organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become itself
terrorist.'Following the words of Giorgio Agamben (from his 2001
article 'On Security and Terror'), security has become the basic
principle of international politics after 9/11, and the 'sole
criterion of political legitimation'. But security - reducing
plural, spontaneous and surprising phenomena to a level of
calculability - also seems to operate against a political
legitimacy based on possibilities of dissent, and stands in clear
opposition to artistic creativity. Being uncalculable by nature,
art is often incompatible with the demands of security and
consequently viewed as a 'risk', leading to the arrest of artists,
and a neutralisation of innovative environments for the sake of
security.Yet precisely the position of art outside the calculable
seems to bring about a new politicisation of art, and some speak of
art as 'politics by other means'. Has art become the last remaining
enclave of a critique of violence? Yet how 'risky' can art be?The
contributors to DATA browser 04: CREATING INSECURITY address these
questions at the intersection of art, technology, and politics.
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