Insecurity by Richard Grusin - ISBN: 9781517913090
Hardcover
Security attempts ironically create more insecurity as life’s default state.

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  • Hardcover

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    11 July 2022

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Summary

Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment

Challenging several key concepts of the twenty-first century, including precarity, securitization, and resilience, this collection explores the concept of insecurity as a predominant logic governing recent cultural, economic, political, and social life in the West. The essays illuminate how attempts to make human and nonhuman systems secure and resilient end up having the opposite effect, …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781517913090
ISBN-10:1517913098
Author:Richard Grusin
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:University of Minnesota Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:11 July 2022
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm x 38mm
Series:21st Century Studies
About The Author

Richard Grusin

Richard Grusin is Distinguished Professor of English and former director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at University of WisconsinMilwaukee. He is editor of The Nonhuman Turn, Anthropocene Feminism, After Extinction, and Ends of Cinema, all from Minnesota.

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