American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability / / Russ Castronovo.
An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacyFor more than three centuries, Americans have pursued strategies of security that routinely make them feel vulnerable, unsafe, and insecure. American Insecurity and the Ori...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 9 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction: Homo Securus and the Story of Insecurity
- Part I: Contradictions and Contours
- 1 The Contradictions of Security in Thirteen Propositions
- 2 The Contours of Security across Nine Historical Récits
- Part II: Information, Aesthetics, Population
- 3 Security and the Technologies of Liberalism
- 4 Terror and the Informational Sublime
- 5 Jeffersonian Trembling
- 6 Creating White Insecurity
- Epilogue: What Comes after Security?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- A Note on the Type