security, n.All

Security is a molar organization, a globalized and unificatory connection that 'sustains us', that keeps us alive, both literally and figuratively.

Security is a like a guardrail which one uses not to hold onto, but to give the eye a feeling of security. One has need of people who without knowing it perform for us the service of a railing. If we were really in great danger they would not help us, but they give us the quieting sensation that there is protection close at hand.

Security is a technology involving heterogeneous material givens dealt with always in their own inherent changing qualities.

Security cameras in San Francisco didn't deterred criminals from committing assaults, sex offenses or robberies, but they did reduce homicide within 250 ft of the cameras, while increasing homicide by the same amount 250-500 ft away from them.

Security is a normal technique of government which has gradually replaced the need for the sovereign to declare a state of exception.

I'm not a doctor, but I play one in the emergency room until security turns up.

Security is a technology such as vaccines or innoculation which prevent problems before they arise.

Security is a failed promise of modernity for which early modernity's uncertainty and insecurity were seen as transitional phenomena in a process capable of achieving total security.

Security is a superstition whereby avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Security is a political mode which, on account of its need for constant reference to a state of exception, is responsible for a growing depoliticization of society that, in the long run, is irreconcilable with democracy.