Mark Neocleous

The Universal Adversary

Security, Capital and 'The Enemies of All Mankind'

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Produktbeschreibung

This book - the first to appear on this topic - is a radical exploration of a category that has emerged from recent emergency planning documents released by the US security state: the Universal Adversary. The Universal Adversary - an abstract enemy - first emerged in security documents, but has since become central to emergency planning in general, and more specifically for preparations in the event of an attack. Examining the ways in which, behind the idea of the Universal Adversary, lies the problem of what is referred to as the 'disgruntled worker', the book further explores how the concept of the Universal Adversary builds on, and deploys, several key tropes in the history of ideas about state power and figures of resistance and disorder: the Zombie, the Devil and the Pirate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781138955158
• ISBN-10: 1138955159
• Artikelnr.: 43035776

Autorenporträt

Mark Neocleous is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy at Brunel University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'The perpetrator has been named, the Universal Adversary':
On the disgruntled Worker 2. 'They work faithfully; they're not afraid of
long hours': On the Zombie 3. 'The ringleader of Rebellion': On the Devil
4. 'An offence against the universal law of society': On the Pirate