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Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.
Security means having some assurance of future stability and the ability to plan ahead.
As uncertainty and precarity become the new normal, so governmental regimes have shifted their focus from how to secure us to how to make us resilient. Security, and the longing for it, have become a kind of pathology. We are no longer to expect or seek certainty but rather to embrace and accept challenge and danger, a state of perpetual emergency…
Certainty is not security, it’s a snapping shut and a cover-up—an attempt to escape from the insecurity of not knowing.
To be insecure, then, means being unfixed and unsure, to be in a place of possibility. Depending on the context, this kind of insecurity can be unpleasant or even terrifying, and it is especially awful when it is foisted on us by those looking to take advantage of our disorientation. But under the right conditions—when it is buttressed by a more fu
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