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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.

While in many spheres today it is becoming apparent that uncertainty and insecurity are being either compounded or even generated by scientifictechnological developments, the actual uncertainties and insecurities of first modernity were interpreted as transitional phenomena in a process of scientization and rationalization, at the end of which we could expect to achieve total security and cognitive certainty. (Beck 2005 : 539)

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.

Deceptive and yet tenable. -Just as in order to walk beside an abyss or cross a deep stream by a plank one needs a railing, not so as to hold on to it for it would at once collapse if one did that but to give to the eye a feeling of security, so as a youth one has need of people who without knowing it perform for us the service of a railing. It is true that, if we were really in great danger, they would not help us if we sought to rely on them, but they give us the quieting sensation that there is protection close at hand (for example fathers, teachers, friends, as all three usually are). (nietzsche 'human all too human' 192)

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

For Deleuze, security is not a factor that determines how the State apparatus will come into being. Security is a molar organization, a globalized and unificatory connection that 'sustains us', that keeps us alive, both literally and figuratively... [Robert Nozick and Gilles Deleuze: Underneath the State Ares Tsologiannes

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

the declaration of the state of exception has gradually been replaced by an unprecedented generalization of the paradigm of security as the normal technique of government' (Agamben 2005:14).

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.

But there is yet another danger. Because they require constant reference to a state of exception, measures of security work towards a growing depoliticization of society. In the long run, they are irreconcilable with democracy.Nothing is therefore more important than a revision of the concept of security as the basic principle of state politics. European and American politicians finally have to consider the catastrophic consequences of uncritical use of this figure of thought.

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 mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

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

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

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