ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in this book. The book sketches an image of security as inherently empty and constantly bound to new referent objects. For the moment that people think themselves secure is also the moment that new insecurities arise: a disturbing conclusion but also a hopeful one, as it means that they can secure increasingly more specific or 'luxurious' aspects of life. The book describes the relationship between events, observation and the materialdiscursive world, by turning to Foucault's insights on power/knowledge, biopolitics, conduct of conduct, and governmentality. In particular, it focuses on the exercise of power that Foucault describes in terms of the indirect governing of processes of circulation (goods, people and so on). The book also offers a security analysis of the accompanying debate on the material consequences and organization of the gas extraction between the threatened local population, the knowledge institutes analysing the gasquakes, and the government and extraction industry.
