Futureproof
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Futureproof

Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Futureproof

Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life

About this book

Security is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles, CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to Futureproof redirect this focus, showing how security is a sensory domain shaped by affect and image as much as rules and rationalities. They examine security as it is lived and felt in domains as varied as real estate listings, active-shooter drills, border crossings, landslide maps, gang graffiti, and museum exhibits to theorize how security regimes are expressed through aesthetic forms. Taking a global perspective with studies ranging from Jamaica to Jakarta and Colombia to the U.S.-Mexico border, Futureproof expands our understanding of the security practices, infrastructures, and technologies that pervade everyday life.

Contributors. Victoria Bernal, Jon Horne Carter, Alexandra Demshock, Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores, Didier Fassin, D. Asher Ghertner, Daniel M. Goldstein, Rachel Hall, Rivke Jaffe, Ieva Jusionyte, Catherine Lutz, Alejandra Leal MartĂ­nez, Hudson McFann, Limor Samimian-Darash, AbdouMaliq Simone, Austin Zeiderman

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction: Security Aesthetics of and beyond the Biopolitical
  5. 1. The Aesthetics of Cyber Insecurity: Displaying the Digital in Three American Museum Exhibits
  6. 2. Danger Signs: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in BogotĂĄ
  7. 3. “We All Have the Same Red Blood”: Security Aesthetics and Rescue Ethics on the Arizona-Sonora Border
  8. 4. Fugitive Horizons and the Arts of Security in Honduras
  9. 5. Security Aesthetics and Political Community Formation in Kingston, Jamaica
  10. 6. Staging Safety in Brooklyn’s Real Estate
  11. 7. Expecting the Worst: Active-Shooter Scenario Play in American Schools
  12. 8. H5N1 and the Aesthetics of Biosecurity: From Danger to Risk
  13. 9. Securing “Standby” and Urban Space Making in Jakarta: Intensities in Search of Forms
  14. 10. Securing the Street: Urban Renewal and the Fight against “Informality” in Mexico City
  15. Afterword: The Age of Security
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Contributors
  18. Index