American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2023
304 pages
978-0-691-24987-2 (ISBN)
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Russ Castronovo is the Tom Paine Professor of English and director of the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Fathering the Nation, Necro Citizenship, Beautiful Democracy, and Propaganda 1776.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Homo Securus and the Story of Insecurity
- Part I: Contradictions and Contours
- 1. The Contradictions of Security in Thirteen Propositions
- 2. The Contours of Security across Nine Historical Récits
- Part II: Information, Aesthetics, Population
- 3. Security and the Technologies of Liberalism: From James Fenimore Cooper to the NSA
- 4. Terror and the Informational Sublime: Data and Gothic Storytelling
- 5. Jeffersonian Trembling: White Nationalism and the Racial Origins of National Security
- 6. Creating White Insecurity: From David Walker's Appeal to the Liberia Herald
- Epilogue: What Comes after Security?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
