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Security/Capital|George S. Rigakos

Security/Capital : A General Theory of Pacification

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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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