THE SPACE-TIME OF PRE-EMPTION

摘要

If the often-cited 'recent events' of the post-9/11 age indicate anything, it is that danger is no longer 'clear and present'. Rather, an indistinct though ever-present fog of threat permeates the space of everyday life. Within this fog - for there is no without - reaction to what clearly appears has been supplanted by pre-emption in relation to what is yet to come.