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Ten Years of Terror: Noam Chomsky

presented by Noam Chomsky

9‍/‍11, as everyone agrees, was a terrible atrocity, maybe the worst single terrorist crime ever. Undoubtedly had major consequences which we are living with. It may be useful to carry out a thought experiment and ask how bad it could’ve been. It could’ve been much worse.

Ten Years of Terror: Zygmunt Bauman

presented by Zygmunt Bauman

No one is in control. That is the major source of contemporary fear. The fears are scattered. The fears are diffused. We can’t pinpoint the sources wherefrom they are coming. They seem to be ubiquitous.

Ten Years of Terror: Michael Hardt

presented by Michael Hardt

What’s most significant about September 11th ten years on I think is the illusion that it created of the end of politics. By the end of politics I mean the notion that force could rule. That terror could effectively…be sufficient for power. And this was an illusion I think that was recognizable at the time of September 11th but almost impossible to say. Almost impossible to say because of a variety of conditions of the dramatic nature of the event, and also of the forces of power that are arraigned with it.

Ten Years of Terror: Michael Dillon

presented by Michael Dillon

Ten years of the War on Terror I think has to be located also in the context of more than ten years of liberal welfare since 1989, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War structures.

Ten Years of Terror: Mary Kaldor

presented by Mary Kaldor

For me…human security is saying an Afghan life is equal to a British life. And our security is guaranteed by contributing to a global security that treats all humans as equal. That’s something very very difficult for politicians to grasp. Partly because they still live in an old-fashioned world where they’re afraid if they use words like “human security” they’ll sound soft.

Ten Years of Terror: J. Peter Burgess

presented by J. Peter Burgess

Few concepts have seized our political imagination in the last decade like security. Few concepts have mobilized us to engage so many extraordinary measures, to dedicate so much money, and to change the lives of so many people as security. And the concept of security has not at all remained stable. It hasn’t remained at all aloof or untouched by this process.

Ten Years of Terror: Brad Evans

presented by Brad Evans

A decade on, the violence of September the 11th, 2001 still haunts the liberal imaginary of threat. And I guess by this what I mean is that the violence of that fateful day now underwrites all forms of liberal security governance, globally. And I think this in many ways is of course understandable. I personally find myself sometimes deeply troubled by that fateful predicament faced by those people who decided to take their own lives on that horrifying day. However in spite of this, I think our response represents nothing short of a profound failure of the political and the philosophical imagination.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Srinivasan Ramani

presented by Srinivasan Ramani

The breakthrough moments were the moments when you succeeded in establishing communication. To a person in our field it’s a bit like the moment when Marconi tries to establish communication over the Atlantic. And you’re personally reenacting it in your own life, doing it in a different context using a technology.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Scott Bradner

presented by Scott Bradner

Pay attention. You can’t leave it to others. You have to pay attention. That this is…while it’s in the political sphere, it is politicians talking to politicians, trying to figure out how to control this thing. It’s in your future. It’s in all of our futures, but you’ve got more of a future than I.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Radia Perlman

presented by Radia Perlman

The things that I designed made it so that the network would…you know, be self-fixing and self-organizing. There’s a lot of things that other people designed that are fancy features that work if you’ve configured them exactly right but if you make mistakes it just will be horrible. And so I’ve tried to talk to people like that sometimes, and they claim their customers love to configure things and they never make mistakes.