Futureproof (eBook, PDF)

Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life
Redaktion: D. Asher Ghertner, Ghertner

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Produktbeschreibung

Security is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles, CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to Futureproof redirect this focus, showing how security is a sensory domain shaped by affect and image as much as rules and rationalities. They examine security as it is lived and felt in domains as varied as real estate listings, active-shooter drills, border crossings, landslide maps, gang graffiti, and museum exhibits to theorize how security regimes are expressed through aesthetic forms. Taking a global perspective with studies ranging from Jamaica to Jakarta and Colombia to the U.S.-Mexico border, Futureproof expands our understanding of the security practices, infrastructures, and technologies that pervade everyday life.Contributors. Victoria Bernal, Jon Horne Carter, Alexandra Demshock, Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores, Didier Fassin, D. Asher Ghertner, Daniel M. Goldstein, Rachel Hall, Rivke Jaffe, Ieva Jusionyte, Catherine Lutz, Alejandra Leal Martinez, Hudson McFann, Limor Samimian-Darash, AbdouMaliq Simone, Austin Zeiderman

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478007517
• Artikelnr.: 66282408

Autorenporträt

D. Asher Ghertner is Associate Professor of Geography at Rutgers University. Hudson McFann is a PhD candidate in geography at Rutgers University. Daniel M. Goldstein is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Catherine Lutz  vii
Introduction. Security Aesthetics of and beyond the Biopolitical / D. Asher
Ghertner, Hudson McFann, and Daniel M. Goldstein  1
1. The Aesthetics of Cyber Insecurity: Displaying the Digital in Three
American Museum Exhibits / Victoria Bernal  33
2. Danger Signs: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Bogotá / Austin Zeiderman 
63
3. "We All Have the Same Red Blood": Security Aesthetics and Rescue Ethics
on the Arizona-Sonora Border / Ieva Jusionyte  87
4. Fugitive Horizons and the Arts of Security in Honduras / Jon Horne
Carter  114
5. Security Aesthetics and Political Community Formation in Kingston,
Jamaica / Rivke Jaffe  134
6. Staging Safety in Brooklyn's Real Estate / Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores and
Alexandra Demshock  156
7. Expecting the Worst: Active-Shooter Scenario Play in American Schools /
Rachel Hall  175
8. H5N1 and the Aesthetics of Biosecurity: From Danger to Risk / Limor
Samimian-Darash  200
9. Securing "Standby" and Urban Space Making in Jakarta: Intensities in
Search of Forms / AbdouMaliq Simone  225
10. Securing the Street: Urban Renewal and the Fight against "Informality"
in Mexico City / Alejandra Leal Martínez 245
Afterword. The Age of Security / Didier Fassin  271
Acknowledgments  277
Contributors  279
Index  285