The primacy of preemption : the operative logic of threat -- National enterprise emergency : steps toward an ecology of powers -- Power to the edge : making information pointy -- Embroilments and history -- Fear (the spectrum said) -- The future birth of the affective fact -- Af…
Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through an in-depth examination of the War on Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi identifies the emergence of preemption,…
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. T…
Analyzes the U.S. foreign policy toward the Soviet Union.
North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its allies in East Asia. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has struggled to perfect delivery systems, but Kim Jong-un's regime now appears to be clo…
