Mark Lacy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Lacy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Lacy |
| SIGNATURE | LACY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9528-2458 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The future of control/The control of the future: Global (dis)order and the weaponisation of everywhere in 2074
In this article, I am going to suggest that questions of societal and political control will be fundamental to the challenges humanity faces in the next 50 years, a continuation of the political and social problems of modernity but playing out in a range of political contexts and with a range of technological ‘tools’. Technicians of security will attempt to manage the disorder and insecurity that results from the potential weaponisation of everyt…
(Re)Designing Security and War? Reflections on Transgressive Creativity and International Relations
In the discipline of IR, a growing number of academics work with artists, designers, architects, and filmmakers to explore a range of global political, economic, and security challenges. At the same time, there has been a concern—made powerfully by Dan Öberg—that there is a danger of what he terms “transgressive creativity” in the way that new approaches and methods are being used to respond to security challenges, especially in a military contex…
Firing cannons to kill mosquitoes: Controlling 'virtual streets' and the 'image of the state' in Bangladesh
This article examines the historical, social and political legacies of the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICT Act) (2006-2018, amended in 2013) and the Digital Security Act (DSA) (2018-) in the Bangladeshi state's attempt to control the 'virtual streets' of Bangladesh. The application of ICT and DSA has become an increasingly visible and controversial means to provide the spectacle of a state that extends disciplinary power and gov…
Securitization and the global politics of cybersecurity
In ‘Digital disaster, cyber security, and the Copenhagen school’, published in 2009, Lene Hansen and Helen Nissenbaum suggest ways in which securitization theory can help understand the politics of cybersecurity and cyberwar. What was significant about Hansen and Nissenbaum's article was the way it attempted to add newapproaches and questions to a topic that tended to occupy a space in an often highly technical discourse of security, technology a…
China and discourses of desecuritization: A reply to Vuori
This is a reply to: Vuori, J. 2018. “Let’s just say we’d like to avoid any great power entanglements: desecuritization in post-Mao Chinese foreign policy towards major powers.” Global Discourse 8 (1): 118–136. http://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1408279
Security, Technology and Global Politics: Thinking with Virilio
Security, Technology and Global Politics: Thinking with Virilio
Security and Climate Change: International Relations and the Limits of Realism
This new book explains why the international community has responded with a sense of fatalistic passivity to climate change. It presents a distinct critique of realism through the study of this topic, commonly overlooked in international relations. The author argues that the realist view rests on a dangerous contradiction; far from delivering security it serves to limit the way we think about the new generation of risks we face. The book also pro…
Securing by design
This article investigates how modern neo-liberal states are ‘securing by design’ – harnessing design to new technologies in order to produce security, safety, and protection. We take a critical view toward ‘securing by design’ and the policy agendas it produces of ‘designing out insecurity’ and ‘designing in protection’ because securing by design strategies rely upon inadequate conceptualisations of security, technology, and design and inadequate…
Intellectuals, International Relations and the Constant Emergency
In this essay, I return to Hans Morgenthau's and Hannah Arendt's writings on the Vietnam war and US foreign policy, which explored questions of bureaucracy, technology, emergency. On one level the essays they wrote illustrate the extent to which the discipline of International Relations (IR) has now caught up with the analyses of politics and war that they were developing in the 1960s and 1970s. We begin to see how lines of thought in Morgenthau'…
The Geopolitics of American Insecurity: Terror, Power, and Foreign Policy
Designer Security: Control Society and MoMA's Safe: Design Takes On Risk
This article suggests that Gilles Deleuze's writings on societies of control provide useful insights on changing configurations of biopower in contemporary societies. However, far from the dystopias depicted in many popular visions of the future, such as the films THX 1138 and Minority Report, societies of control are being shaped by the work of designers, creating the potential for an 'ecology of control' that can become 'benignly' woven into ou…
A History of Violence: Mearsheimer and Walt's Writings from 'An Unnecessary War' to the 'Israel Lobby' Controversy
Realist academics wrote some of the most lucid critiques of the geopolitics of anger initiated after 9/11 by the Bush administration: John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, in particular, began to interrogate the War on Terror with lines of inquiry that lead back to the critiques of U.S. foreign policy—and the ‘fantasies’ and ‘self-deception’ of policy makers—developed in the 1960s by Hans Morgenthau and Hannah Arendt. But then Walt and Mearsheimer p…
War, Cinema, and Moral Anxiety
In modern war, one individual can cause the destruction of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children. He can do so by pushing a button; he may not feel the emotional impact of what he is doing, since he does not see, does not know the people that he kills; it is almost as if his act of pushing the button and their death had no real connection. The same man would probably be incapable of even slapping, not to speak of killing, a helpless p…
Deconstructing Risk Society
Ulrich Beck's writings about risk and ecopolitics have been heralded as one of the most perceptive responses to the 'chaos' and 'uncertainty' of the contemporary world, resulting in various collections of essays concerned with clarifying and extending his Risk Society thesis. On the basis of all this intellectual noise one would assume that Beck's work would provide a useful starting point from which to understand the myriad complexities of ecopo…
Cinema and Ecopolitics: Existence in the Jurassic Park
Social Ecology after Bookchin
Capitalism, Democracy and Ecology: Departing from Marx
War, Cinema, and Moral Anxiety
In modern war, one individual can cause the destruction of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children. He can do so by pushing a button; he may not feel the emotional impact of what he is doing, since he does not see, does not know the people that he kills; it is almost as if his act of pushing the button and their death had no real connection. The same man would probably be incapable of even slapping, not to speak of killing, a helpless p…
Designer Security: Control Society and MoMA's Safe: Design Takes On Risk
This article suggests that Gilles Deleuze's writings on societies of control provide useful insights on changing configurations of biopower in contemporary societies. However, far from the dystopias depicted in many popular visions of the future, such as the films THX 1138 and Minority Report, societies of control are being shaped by the work of designers, creating the potential for an 'ecology of control' that can become 'benignly' woven into ou…
Cinema and Ecopolitics: Existence in the Jurassic Park
Firing cannons to kill mosquitoes: Controlling 'virtual streets' and the 'image of the state' in Bangladesh
This article examines the historical, social and political legacies of the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICT Act) (2006-2018, amended in 2013) and the Digital Security Act (DSA) (2018-) in the Bangladeshi state's attempt to control the 'virtual streets' of Bangladesh. The application of ICT and DSA has become an increasingly visible and controversial means to provide the spectacle of a state that extends disciplinary power and gov…
Securing by design
This article investigates how modern neo-liberal states are ‘securing by design’ – harnessing design to new technologies in order to produce security, safety, and protection. We take a critical view toward ‘securing by design’ and the policy agendas it produces of ‘designing out insecurity’ and ‘designing in protection’ because securing by design strategies rely upon inadequate conceptualisations of security, technology, and design and inadequate…
(Re)Designing Security and War? Reflections on Transgressive Creativity and International Relations
In the discipline of IR, a growing number of academics work with artists, designers, architects, and filmmakers to explore a range of global political, economic, and security challenges. At the same time, there has been a concern—made powerfully by Dan Öberg—that there is a danger of what he terms “transgressive creativity” in the way that new approaches and methods are being used to respond to security challenges, especially in a military contex…
Securitization and the global politics of cybersecurity
In ‘Digital disaster, cyber security, and the Copenhagen school’, published in 2009, Lene Hansen and Helen Nissenbaum suggest ways in which securitization theory can help understand the politics of cybersecurity and cyberwar. What was significant about Hansen and Nissenbaum's article was the way it attempted to add newapproaches and questions to a topic that tended to occupy a space in an often highly technical discourse of security, technology a…
Deconstructing Risk Society
Ulrich Beck's writings about risk and ecopolitics have been heralded as one of the most perceptive responses to the 'chaos' and 'uncertainty' of the contemporary world, resulting in various collections of essays concerned with clarifying and extending his Risk Society thesis. On the basis of all this intellectual noise one would assume that Beck's work would provide a useful starting point from which to understand the myriad complexities of ecopo…
Capitalism, Democracy and Ecology: Departing from Marx
Cinema and Ecopolitics: Existence in the Jurassic Park
Social Ecology after Bookchin
Deconstructing Risk Society
Ulrich Beck's writings about risk and ecopolitics have been heralded as one of the most perceptive responses to the 'chaos' and 'uncertainty' of the contemporary world, resulting in various collections of essays concerned with clarifying and extending his Risk Society thesis. On the basis of all this intellectual noise one would assume that Beck's work would provide a useful starting point from which to understand the myriad complexities of ecopo…
War, Cinema, and Moral Anxiety
In modern war, one individual can cause the destruction of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children. He can do so by pushing a button; he may not feel the emotional impact of what he is doing, since he does not see, does not know the people that he kills; it is almost as if his act of pushing the button and their death had no real connection. The same man would probably be incapable of even slapping, not to speak of killing, a helpless p…
Designer Security: Control Society and MoMA's Safe: Design Takes On Risk
This article suggests that Gilles Deleuze's writings on societies of control provide useful insights on changing configurations of biopower in contemporary societies. However, far from the dystopias depicted in many popular visions of the future, such as the films THX 1138 and Minority Report, societies of control are being shaped by the work of designers, creating the potential for an 'ecology of control' that can become 'benignly' woven into ou…
A History of Violence: Mearsheimer and Walt's Writings from 'An Unnecessary War' to the 'Israel Lobby' Controversy
Realist academics wrote some of the most lucid critiques of the geopolitics of anger initiated after 9/11 by the Bush administration: John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, in particular, began to interrogate the War on Terror with lines of inquiry that lead back to the critiques of U.S. foreign policy—and the ‘fantasies’ and ‘self-deception’ of policy makers—developed in the 1960s by Hans Morgenthau and Hannah Arendt. But then Walt and Mearsheimer p…
The Geopolitics of American Insecurity: Terror, Power, and Foreign Policy
Securing by design
This article investigates how modern neo-liberal states are ‘securing by design’ – harnessing design to new technologies in order to produce security, safety, and protection. We take a critical view toward ‘securing by design’ and the policy agendas it produces of ‘designing out insecurity’ and ‘designing in protection’ because securing by design strategies rely upon inadequate conceptualisations of security, technology, and design and inadequate…
Intellectuals, International Relations and the Constant Emergency
In this essay, I return to Hans Morgenthau's and Hannah Arendt's writings on the Vietnam war and US foreign policy, which explored questions of bureaucracy, technology, emergency. On one level the essays they wrote illustrate the extent to which the discipline of International Relations (IR) has now caught up with the analyses of politics and war that they were developing in the 1960s and 1970s. We begin to see how lines of thought in Morgenthau'…
Security and Climate Change: International Relations and the Limits of Realism
This new book explains why the international community has responded with a sense of fatalistic passivity to climate change. It presents a distinct critique of realism through the study of this topic, commonly overlooked in international relations. The author argues that the realist view rests on a dangerous contradiction; far from delivering security it serves to limit the way we think about the new generation of risks we face. The book also pro…
Security, Technology and Global Politics: Thinking with Virilio
Security, Technology and Global Politics: Thinking with Virilio
Securitization and the global politics of cybersecurity
In ‘Digital disaster, cyber security, and the Copenhagen school’, published in 2009, Lene Hansen and Helen Nissenbaum suggest ways in which securitization theory can help understand the politics of cybersecurity and cyberwar. What was significant about Hansen and Nissenbaum's article was the way it attempted to add newapproaches and questions to a topic that tended to occupy a space in an often highly technical discourse of security, technology a…
China and discourses of desecuritization: A reply to Vuori
This is a reply to: Vuori, J. 2018. “Let’s just say we’d like to avoid any great power entanglements: desecuritization in post-Mao Chinese foreign policy towards major powers.” Global Discourse 8 (1): 118–136. http://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1408279
Firing cannons to kill mosquitoes: Controlling 'virtual streets' and the 'image of the state' in Bangladesh
This article examines the historical, social and political legacies of the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICT Act) (2006-2018, amended in 2013) and the Digital Security Act (DSA) (2018-) in the Bangladeshi state's attempt to control the 'virtual streets' of Bangladesh. The application of ICT and DSA has become an increasingly visible and controversial means to provide the spectacle of a state that extends disciplinary power and gov…
(Re)Designing Security and War? Reflections on Transgressive Creativity and International Relations
In the discipline of IR, a growing number of academics work with artists, designers, architects, and filmmakers to explore a range of global political, economic, and security challenges. At the same time, there has been a concern—made powerfully by Dan Öberg—that there is a danger of what he terms “transgressive creativity” in the way that new approaches and methods are being used to respond to security challenges, especially in a military contex…
The future of control/The control of the future: Global (dis)order and the weaponisation of everywhere in 2074
In this article, I am going to suggest that questions of societal and political control will be fundamental to the challenges humanity faces in the next 50 years, a continuation of the political and social problems of modernity but playing out in a range of political contexts and with a range of technological ‘tools’. Technicians of security will attempt to manage the disorder and insecurity that results from the potential weaponisation of everyt…
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