"A society of security is a society dominated by the irrepressible need for adherence to a collection of myths taken for certainties. It is a society that is fundamentally fearful of the truth; fearful of the unknown and ultimately fearful of itself. It is this deep-seated fear of itself that is then projected outside to whoever stands as its opposite.
This is why in a society of security, the priority is, at all cost, to identify what lurks behind each new arrival - who is who, who lives where, with whom and since when, who does what, who comes from where, who is going where, when, how, why, and so on and so forth.
The aim of a society of security is not to affirm freedom, but to control and govern the modes of arrival, of public appearance.
The current myth claims that technology constitutes the best tool for governing these arrivals or these modes of public appearance''.
"'Racist affect is, paradoxically, governed by the affect of fear - the fear of the powerful when the mighty and the powerful meets vulnerable or powerless or unarmed people, people they can easily victimize, or victimize with impunity.
It manifests itself in the context of asymmetrical encounters, that is, encounters where power and the weight of arbitrariness it carries are concentrated on one side, while the other side is caught in a structural state of vulnerability.
Such encounters, I would like to argue, have become the norm, a constituent feature of these times of ours; of this peculiar moment our world is going through, a moment for which there doesn’t yet seem to be a proper name".
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