Risk or Security

Schmitt's thought, so linked to events in the twentieth century, now seems likely to remain influential in the twenty-first. This is partially due to recent attempts to revitalize his theory in terms of the event.1 It is also due to the extrajudicial events that impinge upon political systems today, such as illegitimate and often racialized police killings, drone strikes, political emergencies brought on by climate change, and the advent of the global surveillance network, to name a few. To analyze what this might mean, I begin with Michael Marder's reading of the political event, which emphasizes its transformative quality, but

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