The Universal Adversary

The Universal Adversary
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 191
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317355434
ISBN-13 : 1317355431
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Universal Adversary by : Mark Neocleous

Download or read book The Universal Adversary written by Mark Neocleous and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This book is a radical exploration of an Enemy that has recently emerged from within security documents released by the US security state: the Universal Adversary. The Universal Adversary is now central to emergency planning in general and, more specifically, to security preparations for future attacks. But an attack from who, or what? This book – the first to appear on the topic – shows how the concept of the Universal Adversary draws on several key figures in the history of ideas, said to pose a threat to state power and capital accumulation. Within the Universal Adversary there lies the problem not just of the ‘terrorist’ but, more generally, of the ‘subversive’, and what the emergency planning documents refer to as the ‘disgruntled worker’. This reference reveals the conjoined power of the contemporary mobilisation of security and the defence of capital. But it also reveals much more. Taking the figure of the disgruntled worker as its starting point, the book introduces some of this worker’s close cousins – figures often regarded not simply as a threat to security and capital but as nothing less than the Enemy of all Mankind: the Zombie, the Devil and the Pirate. In situating these figures of enmity within debates about security and capital, the book engages an extraordinary variety of issues that now comprise a contemporary politics of security. From crowd control to contagion, from the witch-hunt to the apocalypse, from pigs to intellectual property, this book provides a compelling analysis of the ways in which security and capital are organized against nothing less than the ‘Enemies of all Mankind’.


The Universal Adversary Related Books

The Universal Adversary
Language: en
Pages: 191
Authors: Mark Neocleous
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-12 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This book is a radical exploration of an Enemy that has recently emerged from within security docu
The Universal Enemy
Language: en
Pages: 398
Authors: Darryl Li
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-10 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner of the 2021 William A. Douglass Prize: A new perspective on the concept of international jihad and its connection to the 1990s Balkans crisis. No contemp
The Universal Cyclopædia
Language: en
Pages: 732
Authors:
Categories: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Type: BOOK - Published: 1900 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Universal Cyclopaedia
Language: en
Pages: 716
Authors:
Categories: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Type: BOOK - Published: 1900 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Pursuit of the Universal
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Arnold Beckmann
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-13 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2016, held in Paris, France, in June/July 2016. The 18 rev