The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability

By Louise Amoore. 2013

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The governance of global wealth chains (2017, background): “financing has highlighted mechanisms driving the securitization of money and the constitutive role of risk in regulatory design and social exclusion (Amoore 2013; de Goede 2004; Vlcek 2008).”
The new profiling: Algorithms, black boxes, and the failure of anti-discriminatory safeguards in the European Union (2014, background): “Those hypotheses are not up for contes-tation, but rather must be reconnected to the real world in order to cancel out the possibilistic mode of threat (Amoore, 2013) that is created by the algorithm.”
Platform Real Estate: theory and practice of new urban real estate markets (2018, background): “…the new technologies (and metrics) of PRE because they have the capacity to both create and limit future crises and political possibilities (Amoore, 2013; Beer, 2016; Mol, 1999) – and that means that PRE’s most powerful actors also have a growing capacity to map and act upon various…”
Securing with algorithms: Knowledge, decision, sovereignty (2017, background): “Though to an extent this is familiar territory for those who have long studied the anticipatory techniques of preemptive or premediated security (Grusin, 2010; Amoore, 2013; De Goede, 2012; Aradau and Van Munster, 2011; Anderson, 2010; Uncertain Commons, 2013), here the embodied ontological form of ”