Brian Massumi

Ontopower

War, Powers, and the State of Perception

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359951
• ISBN-10: 0822359952
• Artikelnr.: 42740292

Autorenporträt

Brian Massumi is Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He specializes in the philosophy of experience, art and media theory, and political philosophy. His most recent books include Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception (2015), Politics of Affect (2015), and The Power at the End of the Economy (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

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