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BIOPOLITICS OF SECURITY Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory. Explaining how both politics and security are diff erently problematised by changing accounts of time, the work shows how, during the course of the seventeenth century, the problematisation of government and rule became newly enframed by a novel account of time and human fi nitude, which it calls ‘factical fi nitude’. The correlate of fi nitude is the infi nite, and the book explains how the problematisation of politics and security became that of securing the infi nite government of fi nite things. It then explains how concrete political form was given to factical fi nitude by a combination of geopolitics and biopolitics. Modern sovereignty required the services of biopolitics from the very beginning. The essays explain how these politics of security arose at the same time, changed together, and have remained closely allied ever since. In particular, the book explains how biopolitics of security changed in response to the molecularisation and digitalisation of Life, and demonstrates how this has given rise to the dangers and contradictions of twenty-fi rst century security politics. This book will be of much interest to students of political and cultural theory, critical security studies and International Relations. Michael Dillon is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University. He has written extensively on international political theory, continental philosophy, security and war, and cultural research. PRIO New Security Studies Series Editor: J. Peter Burgess, PRIO, Oslo The aim of this book series is to gather state-of-the-art theoretical refl exion and empirical research into a core set of volumes that respond vigorously and dynamically to the new challenges to security scholarship. The Geopolitics of American Securitization Theory Insecurity How security problems emerge and Terror, power and foreign policy dissolve Edited by Fran ç ois Debrix and Mark Edited by Thierry Balzacq J. Lacy Feminist Security Studies Security, Risk and the A narrative approach Biometric State Annick T. R. Wibben Governing borders and bodies Benjamin J. Muller The Ethical Subject of Security Geopolitical reason and the threat Security and Global against Europe Governmentality J. Peter Burgess Globalization, governance and the state Edited by Miguel de Larrinaga and Marc Politics of Catastrophe G. Doucet Genealogies of the unknown Claudia Aradau and Rens van Munster Critical Perspectives on Human Security Security, the Environment and Rethinking emancipation and power Emancipation in international relations Contestation over environmental Edited by David Chandler and change Nik Hynek Matt McDonald Securitization, Accountability and Security, Technology and Global Risk Management Politics Transforming the public security Thinking with Virilio domain Mark Lacy Edited by Karin Svedberg Helgesson and Ulrika M ö rth Critical Security and Chinese Politics Commercialising Security The Anti-Falungong Campaign Political consequences for European Juha A. Vuori military operations Edited by Anna Leander Governing Borders and Security The politics of connectivity and Transnational Companies and dispersal Security Governance Edited by Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Hybrid practices in a postcolonial Svensson world Jana H ö nke Contesting Security Strategies and logics Citizenship and Security Edited by Thierry Balzacq The constitution of political being Edited by Xavier Guillaume and Jef Confl ict Resolution and Huysmans Ontological Security Peace anxieties Security, Emancipation and the Edited by Bahar Rumelili Politics of Health A new theoretical perspective Biopolitics of Security Jo ã o Nunes A political analytic of fi nitude Michael Dillon No one writing about security issues is as philosophically astute, conceptually innovative, politically attuned, and eloquent as Michael Dillon. Everyone in academic, journalism, and policy communities concerned with security thinking should read Biopolitics of Security . Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai’i, Manoa BIOPOLITICS OF SECURITY A political analytic of finitude Michael Dillon First published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2015 Michael Dillon The right of Michael Dillon to be identifi ed as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifi cation and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data A catalog record for this title has been requested ISBN: 978-0-415-48432-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-48433-6 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-72501-7 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Out of House Publishing For Laurence Montagu By the time that we have discovered that things are at a given juncture, they have already changed several times. Hence we always perceive events too late, and politics must always foresee, as it were, the present. (Turgot) For all their boasting, practical men do not know either men or the world; they do not even know the reality of their own works. [If they could return to life], the geniuses of pure politics, the f atalia monstra recorded in histories, would be astounded to learn what they have done without being aware of it, and they would read their own past deeds as in a hieroglyph to which they had been off ered the keys. (Benedetto Croce) CONTENTS Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 1 A political analytic of fi nitude: the infi nity of fi nite government and rule 1 7 2 B iopolitics of security in the twenty-fi rst century 4 5 3 G overnment, economy and biopolitics 7 6 4 U nderwriting security 9 9 5 P olitics of truth and pious economies 1 23 6 B iopolitics of security, race and war 1 49 7 G overning terror: the state of emergency of biopolitical emergence 1 81 Conclusion: a cceleration of the baroque katechon 209 Index 219