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Rantapelkonen, Jari. "BUSH’S NATIONAL SECURITY UNIVERSE: PHRASES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN DISPUTE" 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/p71039_index.html>

Rantapelkonen, J. , 2005-03-05 "BUSH’S NATIONAL SECURITY UNIVERSE: PHRASES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN DISPUTE" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p71039_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This paper studies George W. Bush’s narrative; the relationship between U.S. national security and information technology after the painful experience of 9/11. Bush’s phrases of national security and information technology are in the nucleus of international and national political challenges, yet they are in many ways problematic and controversial. I am asking if they even are a central part of the problem of global war on terror itself. Nevertheless my intention is rather to try to understand what I suggest as Bush’s narrative of “nightmare” by generating questions from political philosophy that challenge and open up these fundamental phrases. As President Bush is boldly able to simplify the complex phenomenon of terrorism, his acts will raise a question more fundamental in the West: how far he can go with the phrases. Colonizing a cyberspace with totalitarian surveillance activities maintains a paradoxical silence; a vast amount of information without knowledge. In this sense, President Bush has taken in his “ride” American national security culture to the new frontiers. This has a potential to lead to the deterritorialization of national security. Using Lyotard’s thoughts, the paper discovers questions of putting the phrase “take the battle to the enemy” into practice. On an information technology level of analysis this can be seen as total accident, in Paul Virilio’s terms, with the pragmatism of permanent cybersurveillance (Patriot Act) of the Americans and not just terrorists. It is a logical step for modernity to define information technology as a tool in this battle in which “freedom does not come free”. On a narrative level of analysis, I suggest that phrases of information technology should be turned into recognizing a differend. These phrases put forward the unpresentable which, even though it opens up a question of the concept of ‘enemy’, reveals how the United States in its travel is struggling not with the enemy but with itself. Bush’s disputable phrases of information technology occupy an important place in U.S. national security culture because of their contradictory relation between state and individual to western expansion of freedom. This is enabled in Bush’s narrative which is legitimated by a possible “nightmare”. By “discovering” this “frontier” in Bush’s universe, we can better understand the modern project grounding its legitimacy in the imaginable future – and not in 9/11.

President Bush's Narrative of a Different kind of war and the Practice of Information Technology

PRESIDENT BUSH’S NARRATIVE OF ‘DIFFERENT KIND OF WAR’