Rhetoric of InSecurity: The Language of Danger, Fear and Safety in National and International Contexts
暫譯: 不安全的修辭：國內外危險、恐懼與安全的語言
Baines, Victoria
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商品描述
This 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 Humanities and Social Sciences, most notably studies on rhetoric in Greco-Roman texts, and on the articulation of security concerns in law, international relations, and public policy contexts. It adds value to this body of research by offering new points of comparison, and a fresh but tried and tested way of looking at problems that are often presented as unprecedented. It will be essential to legal and policy practitioners, students of Law, Politics, Media, and Classics, and all those interested in employing critical thinking.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書要求我們質疑關於安全的說法，並使用我們已有數千年的工具。
本書考慮了安全修辭在多個不同但相關的背景下的歷史，包括美國的安全策略、對大型科技公司的「戰爭」，以及當前的關注點如網絡安全。專注於安全話語的語言，它從古代世界到當今及不久的未來提取共同的主題。本書將最近將唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）與尼祿皇帝（Emperor Nero）進行比較的論點建立在語言證據的基礎上。它檢視政策制定者對網絡犯罪新穎性的強調、將互聯網比作西部荒野的說法，以及他們聲稱罪犯已經「隱匿」的影響，對社會可能造成的影響。它質疑政府對科技公司的描述，使用通常保留給恐怖分子的語言，並詢問誰可能會受益。
本書採取跨學科的方法，基於人文學科和社會科學的現有文獻，特別是對希臘羅馬文本中修辭的研究，以及在法律、國際關係和公共政策背景下表達安全關切的研究。它通過提供新的比較點和一種新穎但經過驗證的方式來看待通常被呈現為前所未有的問題，為這一研究領域增添了價值。對於法律和政策實務者、法律、政治、媒體和古典學的學生，以及所有有興趣運用批判性思維的人來說，這本書將是必不可少的。
作者簡介
Victoria Baines is Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University's School of Computing. She has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Oxford and lectured at Stanford University. Trained as a Classicist with a specialism in rhetoric in Roman literature, she worked as a law enforcement intelligence analyst and a technology company executive before returning to research. Her research touches on public policy, threat representation, surveillance, cyberspace and internet governance, and futures methods. She regularly contributes to media coverage on the misuse of social and emerging technologies.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
維多利亞·貝恩斯是伯恩茅斯大學計算機學院的訪問研究員。她曾在牛津大學擔任訪問研究員，並在史丹佛大學講授課程。她接受古典學訓練，專攻羅馬文學中的修辭學，曾擔任執法機構的情報分析師和科技公司高管，之後回到研究領域。她的研究涉及公共政策、威脅表徵、監控、網絡空間和互聯網治理，以及未來方法。她定期為媒體提供有關社交和新興技術濫用的報導。
