Futureproof by D. Asher Ghertner PAPERBACK 9781478006909

Futureproof\nby D. Asher Ghertner\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: D. Asher Ghertner\nTitle: Futureproof\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Urban communities\nPublisher: Duke University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781478006909\nISBN-10: 1478006900\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nSecurity is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles, CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to Futureproof redirect this focus, showing how security is a sensory domain shaped .