Social securitization functions as prophylaxis protecting existing power from challenge

Evidence

Condomizing social arrangement follows in seeking to secure authority centrally and increasingly secretly, in the unlimited and unannounced unleashing of purges of the body politic, of its cleansing of the alien virus within and of isolating the externalized enemy without. It often elevates an uncritical and pretty much unchecked militarization as source of social truth, political power, and economic wellbeing. Prophylaxis prescribes measures to prevent or circumscribe the spread of social dis-ease, to limit its reach and range. This prescriptive circumscription thus entails protection of the status quo, of prevailing power from critical challenge, from the threat of its dissolution. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 483

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the condomizing/prophylactic logic of security as guarding prevailing power from critical challenge.
• XREF: connects to: The technical model of infallibility now governs the social, not the actual threat — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 125; Securitization couples financial risk management with surveillance and militarized security. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 47; Securitization converts uncertainty into quantifiable, tradeable risk and shapes daily life — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 248 (+2 more)