Critique of Security

Introduction 1. 'The supreme concept of bourgeois society': liberalism and the technique of security (i) Security, sovereignty, prerogative (ii) Liberty in security and liberal insecurity (iii) Prerogative and necessity: towards emergency 2. Emergency? What emergency? (i) From martial law to emergency powers (ii) Walter Benjamin goes to Senate (iii) Against normality 3. From social to national security: on the fabrication of economic order (i) The garden of security, or 'Security - this is more like it' (ii) Containment I: national security, international order and six million corpses 4. Security, identity, loyalty (i) Containment II: national security, domestic order and the fear of disintegration (ii) The garden of pansies, or 'no communists or cocksuckers in the library' 5. The Company and the Campus (i) Security fetishism (ii) Security intellectuals (iii) Closing gambit: return the gift.