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The administration of fear

Virilio, p.

9781584351054 - The administration of fear
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Artikelomschrijving

We are living under the administration of fear: fear has become an environment, an everyday landscape. There was a time when wars, famines, and epidemics were localized and limited by a certain timeframe. Today, it is the world itself that is limited, saturated, and manipulated, the world itself that seizes us and confines us with a stressful claustrophobia. Stock-market crises, undifferentiated terrorism, lightning pandemics, professional suicides...Fear has become the world we live in. The administration of fear also means that states are tempted to create policies for the orchestration and management of fear. Globalization has progressively eaten away at the traditional prerogatives of states (most notably of the welfare state), and states have to convince citizens that they can ensure their physical safety. In this new and lengthy interview, Paul Virilio shows us how the propaganda of progress, the illuminism of new technologies, provide unexpected vectors for fear in the way that they manufacture frenzy and stupor.

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Auteur Virilio, p.
ISBN/EAN 9781584351054
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Artikelomschrijving

We are living under the administration of fear: fear has become an environment, an everyday landscape. There was a time when wars, famines, and epidemics were localized and limited by a certain timeframe. Today, it is the world itself that is limited, saturated, and manipulated, the world itself that seizes us and confines us with a stressful claustrophobia. Stock-market crises, undifferentiated terrorism, lightning pandemics, professional suicides...Fear has become the world we live in. The administration of fear also means that states are tempted to create policies for the orchestration and management of fear. Globalization has progressively eaten away at the traditional prerogatives of states (most notably of the welfare state), and states have to convince citizens that they can ensure their physical safety. In this new and lengthy interview, Paul Virilio shows us how the propaganda of progress, the illuminism of new technologies, provide unexpected vectors for fear in the way that they manufacture frenzy and stupor.

Specificaties

Auteur Virilio, p.
ISBN/EAN 9781584351054