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"Challenging several key concepts of the twenty-first century, including precarity, securitization, and resilience, this collection explores insecurity as a predominant logic governing recent cultural, economic, political, and social life in the West. The essays illuminate how attempts to make human and nonhuman systems secure and resilient end up having the opposite effect, making insecurity the default state of life today."--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Richard Grusin
1.
Securitati Perpetuae: Death, Fear, and the History of Insecurity
Mark Neocleous
2. Microwork, Automation, and the Insecurity of Contemporary Labor
Annie McClanahan
3. Deadly Entanglements: U.S. Imperialism and Perils of Privatizing Security
A. Naomi Paik
4. Governing Suspects: Race, Preemption, and Economies of Threat in American Warfare
Lisa Bhungalia
5. Figuring the Climate Refugee: From Insecurity to Adaptation in Representations of Bangladeshi Environmental Migration
Neel Ahuja
6. Cyber-Insecurities and Racialized Threat in the Embattled Urban Ecosystem
Andrea Miller
7. The Burnout Generation Tidies Up: On the Insecurity of Adulting
Maureen Ryan
8. Rogue Capabilities and Invisible Violence: A Conversation between Saskia Sassen and Aneesh Aneesh
Saskia Sassen and Aneesh Aneesh
9. Letting Go
Jennifer Doyle
Contributors
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Richard Grusin is Distinguished Professor of English and former director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is editor of
The Nonhuman Turn,
Anthropocene Feminism,
After Extinction, and
Ends of Cinema, all from Minnesota.
