• How would you define “menace”? What varieties of points does the thought of “menace” make you take into account?
• Related to feelings of security/insecurity
• Hazard is ever-present
• Ranges of menace. Risk vs. probability
• Distinctive politics/States of Exception
• From the readings, what varieties of explicit security practices can we affiliate with the thought of “menace”?
• Digicam surveillance
• Wire tapping
• Internet surveillance
• Meta-data mining
• Pre-emptive arrests
• Pre-emptive/extra-judicial killing
“Administration Narrative of the Internet”
• “The Administration Narrative of the Internet” (Altheide)
• Internet clients have an consciousness and an expectation that knowledge is every monitored and utilized by various audiences for diverse features.
• i.e. We depend on every to look at and be watched. We (often) consent to this.
• Governmentality
“Paradox of internet security”
• What’s “the paradox of internet security”? (Altheide)
• “… internet security requires violation [of privacy] and surveillance…“
• Residents depend on privateness nonetheless, paradoxically, are eager to supply over non-public info in an effort to defend that privateness
• There’s a big amount of non-public and biometric knowledge that is now accessible to people who wish to use it. Every lawfully and unlawfully.
• Mediated interaction; Fake info; Election tampering; “Digital Booty” and disinformation; Firm and authorities hacking and many others.
• “The logic of pre-emption … throughout the security strategies of the post-9/11 interval is… a political rationality that permits movement to be taken throughout the face of apparent radical uncertainty… by means of anticipatory interventions throughout the present” (Stockdale 2013)
– Uncertainty and “creativeness” is the thought of movement
– Doable danger pretty than doable danger
– Requires and normalizes “distinctive politics” and thus, creates a eternal “state of exception”
– Sarcastically, can “end up producing, reproducing, and regenerating the very issue it seeks to disarm” (insecurity and uncertainty on the diploma of life and demise
