"Challenging several key concepts of the twenty-first century, including precarity, securitization, and resilience, this collection explores insecurity as a predominant logic governing recent cultural, economic, political, and social life in the West. The essays illuminate how attempts to make human and nonhuman systems secure and resilient end up having the opposite effect, making insecurity the default state of life today."--

Richard Grusin is Distinguished Professor of English and former director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is editor of The Nonhuman Turn, Anthropocene Feminism, After Extinction, and Ends of Cinema, all from Minnesota.

Introduction

Richard Grusin

1. Securitati Perpetuae: Death, Fear, and the History of Insecurity

Mark Neocleous

2. Microwork, Automation, and the Insecurity of Contemporary Labor

Annie McClanahan

3. Deadly Entanglements: U.S. Imperialism and Perils of Privatizing Security

A. Naomi Paik

4. Governing Suspects: Race, Preemption, and Economies of Threat in American Warfare

Lisa Bhungalia

5. Figuring the Climate Refugee: From Insecurity to Adaptation in Representations of Bangladeshi Environmental Migration

Neel Ahuja

6. Cyber-Insecurities and Racialized Threat in the Embattled Urban Ecosystem

Andrea Miller

7. The Burnout Generation Tidies Up: On the Insecurity of Adulting

Maureen Ryan

8. Rogue Capabilities and Invisible Violence: A Conversation between Saskia Sassen and Aneesh Aneesh

Saskia Sassen and Aneesh Aneesh

9. Letting Go

Jennifer Doyle

Contributors

Index