Beyond Risk: Premediation and the Post-9/11 Security Imagination

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1 April 2008

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Published by SAGE Publications in Security Dialogue

Vol. 39 (2-3) , 155-176
https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010608088773

Abstract

In the context of the `war on terror', techniques of imagining the future have taken on new political significance. Richard Grusin has coined the term `premediation' to describe the way in which news media and cultural industries map and visualize a plurality of possible futures. This article examines the relation between the politics of risk and premediation as a security practice. Premediation simultaneously deploys and exceeds the language of risk. Its self-conscious deployment of imagination in security practice feeds economies of both anxiety and desire.

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