Security is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles, CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to Futureproof redirect this focus, showing how security is a sensory domain shaped by affect and image as much as rules and rationalities. They examine security as it is lived and felt in domains as varied as real estate listings, active-shooter drills, border crossings, landslide maps, gang graffiti, and museum exhibits to theorize how security regimes are expressed through aesthetic forms. Taking a global perspective with studies ranging from Jamaica to Jakarta and Colombia to the U.S.-Mexico border, Futureproof expands our understanding of the security practices, infrastructures, and technologies that pervade everyday life.
Contributors. Victoria Bernal, Jon Horne Carter, Alexandra Demshock, Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores, Didier Fassin, D. Asher Ghertner, Daniel M. Goldstein, Rachel Hall, Rivke Jaffe, Ieva Jusionyte, Catherine Lutz, Alejandra Leal Martínez, Hudson McFann, Limor Samimian-Darash, AbdouMaliq Simone, Austin Zeiderman
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: Security Aesthetics of and beyond the Biopolitical
- 1. The Aesthetics of Cyber Insecurity: Displaying the Digital in Three American Museum Exhibits
- 2. Danger Signs: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Bogotá
- 3. “We All Have the Same Red Blood”: Security Aesthetics and Rescue Ethics on the Arizona-Sonora Border
- 4. Fugitive Horizons and the Arts of Security in Honduras
- 5. Security Aesthetics and Political Community Formation in Kingston, Jamaica
- 6. Staging Safety in Brooklyn’s Real Estate
- 7. Expecting the Worst: Active-Shooter Scenario Play in American Schools
- 8. H5N1 and the Aesthetics of Biosecurity: From Danger to Risk
- 9. Securing “Standby” and Urban Space Making in Jakarta: Intensities in Search of Forms
- 10. Securing the Street: Urban Renewal and the Fight against “Informality” in Mexico City
- Afterword: The Age of Security
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
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