| ID | 081451 |
| Title Proper | Beyond risk |
| Other Title Information | premediation and the post-9/11 security imagination |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Goede, Marieke De |
| Publication | 2008. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In the context of the `war on terror', techniques of imagining the future have taken on new political significance. Richard Grusin has coined the term `premediation' to describe the way in which news media and cultural industries map and visualize a plurality of possible futures. This article examines the relation between the politics of risk and premediation as a security practice. Premediation simultaneously deploys and exceeds the language of risk. Its self-conscious deployment of imagination in security practice feeds economies of both anxiety and desire |
| `In' analytical Note | Security Dialogue Vol. 39, No.2-3; Apr-Jun 2008: p155-176 |
| Journal Source | Security Dialogue Vol. 39, No.2-3; Apr-Jun 2008: p155-176 |
| Key Words | War on Terror ; Risk ; Premediation ; Security ; Stress Testing |