On the Universal Adversary : Security, Capital and 'the Enemies of All Mankind' by Mark Neocleous read online DJV, EPUB, DOC
9781138955165 English 1138955167 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 - showshowthe concept of the Universal Adversarydraws onseveral keyfiguresin the history of ideas, said to posea threatto state power and capital accumulation. Within the Universal Adversary there lies the problemnot justofthe 'terrorist' but, more generally, ofthe'subversive', and what the emergency planning documents refer to as the 'disgruntled worker'. Thisreferencereveals 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 bookintroduces 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 withindebates about security and capital, the bookengages an extraordinaryvariety ofissuesthat now comprise acontemporary 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'., 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. Exploring why this concept has emerged at this time - roughly in the last 10 years - the book demonstrates its centrality to the contemporary mobilisation of security and the defence of capital. 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. Addressing the figures of the Zombie, the Devil and the Pirate, it shows how the ways in which they have been discussed as 'universal adversaries' reveal the deeper rationales within contemporary security politics., 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. Exploring why this concept has emerged at this time roughly in the last 10 years the book demonstrates its centrality to the contemporary mobilisation of security and the defence of capital. 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. Addressing the figures of the Zombie, the Devil and the Pirate, it shows how the ways in which they have been discussed as universal adversaries reveal the deeper rationales within contemporary security politics. "
9781138955165 English 1138955167 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 - showshowthe concept of the Universal Adversarydraws onseveral keyfiguresin the history of ideas, said to posea threatto state power and capital accumulation. Within the Universal Adversary there lies the problemnot justofthe 'terrorist' but, more generally, ofthe'subversive', and what the emergency planning documents refer to as the 'disgruntled worker'. Thisreferencereveals 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 bookintroduces 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 withindebates about security and capital, the bookengages an extraordinaryvariety ofissuesthat now comprise acontemporary 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'., 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. Exploring why this concept has emerged at this time - roughly in the last 10 years - the book demonstrates its centrality to the contemporary mobilisation of security and the defence of capital. 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. Addressing the figures of the Zombie, the Devil and the Pirate, it shows how the ways in which they have been discussed as 'universal adversaries' reveal the deeper rationales within contemporary security politics., 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. Exploring why this concept has emerged at this time roughly in the last 10 years the book demonstrates its centrality to the contemporary mobilisation of security and the defence of capital. 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. Addressing the figures of the Zombie, the Devil and the Pirate, it shows how the ways in which they have been discussed as universal adversaries reveal the deeper rationales within contemporary security politics. "