Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Part One: Powers
5. 1. The Primacy of Preemption: The Operative Logic of Threat 3
6. 2. National Enterprise Emergency: Steps toward an Ecology of Powers 21
7. Part Two: Powers of Perception
8. 3. Perception Attack: The Force to Own Time 63
9. 4. Power to the Edge: Making Information Pointy 93
10. 5. Embroilments and History 153
11. Part Three: The Power to Affect
12. 6. Fear: (The Spectrum Said) 171
13. 7. The Future Birth of the Affective Fact 189
14. Afterword: After the Long Past: A Retrospective Introduction to the History of the Present 207
15. Notes 245
16. References 273
17. Index 287