ABSTRACT
Governing terror first references the massive global security effort that is now devoted to the war on terror. Its primary purpose is to bring terror within the political rationalities and calculative control of Western security technologies with the aim of destroying it or reducing it to manageable proportions. In the process there has been a massive extension and intensification of the political rationalities and governing technologies of security into almost every aspect of western life. It is important to recall briefly how geopolitics of security differ from biopolitics of security. The biopolitical processes involved have been underway for some very considerable time. They differ in terms particularly of their referent objects of security, their political rationalities, their security mechanisms or technologies, their different histories and accounts of power relations, and, finally, their different ontological and epistemic assumptions. In Foucault's terms these dispositifs of security are quite different discursive ensembles.
