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Luke, Timothy. "(In)Security Systems: Everyday Trade, Daily Travel, and Ordinary Technics as Environments of Threat" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70776_index.html>

Luke, T. W. , 2005-03-05 "(In)Security Systems: Everyday Trade, Daily Travel, and Ordinary Technics as Environments of Threat" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70776_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This paper examines how the sites of exchange and nonplaces of technostructure found in modern urban-industrial settings can, and do, constitute a new threat environment that goes all the way down, and all the way up the existing political order. The means for triggering highly destructive acts can be shaped simply by refunctioning ordinary assumptions about the technical actions required by transnational, national, and local commerce. Airports, bus terminals, cargo areas, railway stations, freeways, postal systems, power grids, large buildings, and city streets ordinarily are the conduits for the logistical traffic of settled modern life. Disrupting these logistical flows, however, by simply misusing some major technical device, misdirecting a large infrastructure system, or mishandling everyday traffic are all potentially severe threats. Whether they are state agents, corporate employees, criminal elements, or terrorist groups, the right tactics can make otherwise stable systems into dangerous devices. Thus, the networks and nodes of all built environmental formations constitute systems of (in)security. Few state agencies can assess, activate or even articulate the threats they pose, whether those events come from happenstance or actions taken by terrorists, civil resistance groups, or hostile foreign powers. Consequently, this paper will focus upon these inescapable realities, and ask what can, or should, be done about them for security policies and practices. The necessity for, and the pervasiveness of, these technostructures immediately raises issues of personal liberty and civic engagement in their securitization. Here the terrorist attacks of 9.11.01, and the inchoate responses to them in the USA, are a good case in point for reconsidering how unprepared the existing security apparatuses of nation-states still remain amidst these threat environments.

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