Security/Capital : A General Theory of Pacification
Overview
What is security, and what is its relationship to capitalism? George S. Rigakos' explosive treatise charts the rise of the security-industrial complex. Starting from a critical appraisal of 'productive labour' in the works of Karl Marx and Adam Smith, Rigakos builds a conceptual model of pacification based on practices of dispossession, exploitation and the fetish of security commodities. Rigakos argues that a defining characteristic of the global economic system is its ability to productively sell (in)security to those it makes insecure. Materially and ideologically, the security-industrial complex is the blast furnace of global capitalism, fuelling the perpetuation of the system while feeding relentlessly on the surpluses it has exacted.
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- ISBN-13: 9781474413664
- ISBN-10: 1474413668
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publish Date: April 2016
- Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 156
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