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Nightclub

Bouncers, Risk, and the Spectacle of Consumption

By: George S. Rigakos

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Nightclub

Bouncers, Risk, and the Spectacle of Consumption

By: George S. Rigakos

People go to nightclubs to see and be seen - to view others as aesthetic objects and to present themselves as objects of desire. Rigakos argues that this activity fuses surveillance and aesthetic consumption - it fetishizes bodies and amplifies social capital, producing violence and crises fuelled by alcohol. At closing time, patrons flow out of the insular haze of the nightclub and onto city streets, moving from private spectacle to public nuisance. Bouncers are thus both policing agents in the nighttime economy and the gatekeepers of an urban risk market - a site of circumscribed transgression and consumption that begins at the nightclub door.

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285

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773578013

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9780773578012

Security/Capital

A General Theory of Pacification

By: Rigakos George S. Rigakos

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Security/Capital

A General Theory of Pacification

By: Rigakos George S. Rigakos

What is security, and what is its relationship to capitalism? George S. Rigakos' explosive treatise charts the rise of the security-industrial complex. Starting from a critical appraisal of 'productive labour' in the works of Karl Marx and Adam Smith, Rigakos builds a conceptual model of pacification based on practices of dispossession, exploitation and the fetish of security commodities. Rigakos argues that a defining characteristic of the global economic system is its ability to productively sell (in)security to those it makes insecure. Materially and ideologically, the security-industrial complex is the blast furnace of global capitalism, fuelling the perpetuation of the system while feeding relentlessly on the surpluses it has exacted.

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141

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474413692

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9781474413695

The New Parapolice

Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control

By: George Rigakos

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The New Parapolice

Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control

By: George Rigakos

Rigakos argues that for-profit policing and security companies adopt many of the tactics and functions of the public police, and are less distinguishable from the latter than has been previously assumed in the criminological literature.

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