[aha] DATA browser 04 - Creating Insecurity: art and culture in the age of security edited by Wolfgang Sützl & Geoff Cox
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Mer 2 Set 2009 23:43:11 CEST
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> From: Luis Silva <silva.luis at netcabo.pt>
> Date: 2009/9/2
> Subject: DATA browser 04
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> DATA browser 04.
>
> Creating Insecurity: art and culture in the age of security edited by
> Wolfgang Sützl & Geoff Cox
>
> contributors:
> Giorgio Agamben | Konrad Becker | Bureau of Inverse Technology | Geoff
> Cox | Florian Cramer | glorious ninth | Brian Holmes | carlos
> katastrofsky | Martin Knahl | Norbert Koppensteiner | Daniela
> Ingruber |
> The Institute for Applied Autonomy | Naeem Mohaiemen | Mukul Patel |
> Luis Silva | Wolfgang Sützl | Tiziana Terranova | McKenzie Wark
>
> 'Today we are facing extreme and most dangerous developments in the
> thought of security. In the course of a gradual neutralisation of
> politics and the progressive surrender of traditional tasks of the
> state, security imposes itself as the basic principle of state
> activity.
> What used to be one among several decisive measures of public
> administration until the first half of the twentieth century, now
> becomes the sole criterion of political legitimation. The thought of
> security entails an essential risk. A state which has security as its
> sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can
> always
> be provoked by terrorism to become itself terrorist.'
>
> Following the words of Giorgio Agamben (from his 2001 article 'On
> Security and Terror'), security has become the basic principle of
> international politics after 9/11, and the 'sole criterion of
> political
> legitimation'. But security – reducing plural, spontaneous and
> surprising phenomena to a level of calculability – also seems to
> operate
> against a political legitimacy based on possibilities of dissent, and
> stands in clear opposition to artistic creativity. Being
> uncalculable by
> nature, art is often incompatible with the demands of security and
> consequently viewed as a 'risk', leading to the arrest of artists,
> and a
> neutralisation of innovative environments for the sake of security.
>
> Yet precisely the position of art outside the calculable seems to
> bring
> about a new politicisation of art, and some speak of art as
> 'politics by
> other means'. Has art become the last remaining enclave of a
> critique of
> violence? Yet how 'risky' can art be?
>
> http://www.data-browser.net/04/
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