Rhetoric of InSecurity

This book demands that we question what we are told about security, using tools we have had for thousands of years. It will be essential to legal and policy practitioners, students of Law, Politics, Media, and Classics, and all those interested in employing critical thinking.

Autorentext

Victoria Baines is Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University's School of Computing. She has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Oxford and lectured at Stanford University. Trained as a Classicist with a specialism in rhetoric in Roman literature, she worked as a law enforcement intelligence analyst and a technology company executive before returning to research. Her research touches on public policy, threat representation, surveillance, cyberspace and internet governance, and futures methods. She regularly contributes to media coverage on the misuse of social and emerging technologies.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 - The Classical Heritage of Modern (In)Security Rhetoric

Chapter 2 The Rhetoric of the US National Security Strategy

Chapter 3 The War on Big Tech: Construction of Internet Companies as Ideological Others

Chapter 4 The Dark Wild West World War: Danger and Incapability in the Realm of Cybersecurity

Chapter 5 Epilogue