Security/Capital: A General Theory of Pacification

ISBN-13: 9781474413664 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 156 str.

George S. Rigakos

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Security Under Capitalism; 1. Productive Labour; 2. Dispossession; 3. Exploitation; 4. The Security Commodity; 5. Security is Hegemony; 6. The Productivity of Security; Conclusions: Security After Capitalism; Bibliography; Index.