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100 1 0 _aMassumi, Brian
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245 0 0 _aPrevention, Deterrence, Preemption
260 _c2017.
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520 _aAfter distinguishing three different strategies aiming at neutralizing threats—prevention, deterrence, preemption—Brian Massumi analyses the latter in its theorization and implementation during the G.W. Bush era. Both an epistemology and an ontology endowed with a self-propelling tendency, preemption is an operative logic of power defining a political epoch in as infinitely space-filling and insidiously infiltrating a way as the logic of deterrence defined the Cold War era. Such an analysis is extremely timely in order to understand the implications of the “War on Terror” currently waged by the French and many other European governments.
786 0 _nMultitudes | o 67 | 2 | 2017-06-23 | p. 165-175 | 0292-0107
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2017-2-page-165?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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