ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by unpacking features of the dominant security discourse and then resituating the question in a radical politics. It offers a reconceptualization of security that attempts to reconcile a post-critical and normative agenda. The chapter discusses moving forward on this question requires a rejection of the association between security, certainty and authority. Ambiguity is indeed the proper stay against those tendencies of consolidation destructive both of democracy and security. Security knowledge is regularly deployed to stay the political. The dominant security discourse characterized by positivism, elitism and dualism is vaunted to break the uncertainty of multiple orders. Dominant security expertise is both disciplined and disciplining. It is produced in the material spaces disciplined by funding flows, which are dominated by private and conservative public funding institutions. The security gap is the space or ‘dark figure’ between the security measures and quantities. In security in ambiguity the dependency and conditionality of existence is the acceptable source of human aspirations.
