Beschreibung:
In this original theory of power, Brian Massumi explains how the logic of preemption governs U.S. military policy in the War on Terror and how that logic spills over from the war front to the home front. Threats are now felt into reality and power refocuses on what may emerge. The mode of power embodying the logic of preemption is ontopower.
Preface vii Part One: Powers 1. The Primacy of Preemption: The Operative Logic of Threat 3 2. National Enterprise Emergency: Steps toward an Ecology of Powers 21 Part Two: Powers of Perception 3. Perception Attack: The Force to Own Time 63 4. Power to the Edge: Making Information Pointy 93 5. Embodiments and History 153 Part Three: The Power to Affect 6. Fear (The Spectrum Said) 171 7. The Future Birth of the Affective Fact 189 Afterword: After the Long Past: A Retrospective Introduction to the History of the Present 207 Notes 247 References 275 Index 287