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Ten Years of Terror: 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.

Disposable Life: Gil Anidjar

In usages of dis­pose, dis­po­si­tion, dis­pos­ing, there is always a ques­tion of putting in order, and putting things in their place. Which also means of course hav­ing the pow­er to do so.