Summary
Working on the assumption that the growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity, these essays examine how this anxiety-laden mindset erodes spaces both architectural and personal, encroaching on all aspects of everyday life.
Contents
1. Fear factor -- 2. Cities and the war on terror -- 3. Empire of the insensate -- 4. Urban operations and network centric warfare -- 5. Planet America : empire's new land grab -- 6. Waiting in African cities -- 7. Border tours : strategies of surveillance, tactics of encroachment -- 8. Restating the obvious -- 9. The threat from within : protecting the indefensible from the indeterminate --
10. Blank slates and disaster zones : the state, September 11, and the displacement of Chinatown -- 11. Back to zero : mourning in America -- 12. The new emotions of home : fear, insecurity, and paranoia -- 13. Stage authenticity today -- 14. Architecture emblematic : hardened sites and softened symbols -- 15. Me and my monkey : what's hiding in the security state -- 16. Thanatotactics -- 17. "The poor man's airforce": a brief history of the car bomb.