ABSTRACT
This chapter takes a stand against the idea that we should be searching for socially responsible innovations in security. Taking as its starting point the way that security functions as an overwhelming power in modern society, justifying everything done in its name, the chapter connects this power to capital and the state more generally, arguing that the whole logic of security is to subsume everything it encounters. This includes developments in security which are thought of as ‘socially responsible innovations’. The idea of ‘socially responsible innovations in security’ is a means by which radicals and academics seek to assert some kind of influence in the social field, but in fact reveals what is really their complete powerlessness in the face of security (and therefore in the face of capital and the state). In seeking socially responsible innovations in security, the power of security is confirmed rather than challenged. The chapter is therefore an argument against the logic which underpins the rest of the chapters in the book.
