Description
Book SynopsisThis book demands that we question what we are told about security, using tools we have had for thousands of years.
The work considers the history of security rhetoric in a number of distinct but related contexts, including the United States' security strategy, the war on Big Tech, and current concerns such as cybersecurity. Focusing on the language of security discourse, it draws common threads from the ancient world to the present day and the near future. The book grounds recent comparisons of Donald Trump to the Emperor Nero in a linguistic evidence base. It examines the potential impact on society of policy-makers' emphasis on the novelty of cybercrime, their likening of the internet to the Wild West, and their claims that criminals have gone dark. It questions governments' descriptions of technology companies in words normally reserved for terrorists, and asks who might benefit.
Interdisciplinary in approach, the book builds on existing literature in the Humanitie
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - The Classical Heritage of Modern (In)Security Rhetoric
Chapter 2 – The Rhetoric of the US National Security Strategy
Chapter 3 – The War on Big Tech: Construction of Internet Companies as Ideological Others
Chapter 4 – The Dark Wild West World War: Danger and Incapability in the Realm of Cybersecurity
Chapter 5 – Epilogue
