Introduction; E.Dauphinee & C.Masters PART I: BODIES, LIVES, DEATHS Crossroads of Death; R.L.Doty Missing Persons: Manhattan, September 2001; J.Edkins Body Counts: The Biopolitics of Death; C.Masters Part II: Cinematics, Culture, Aesthetics * Responsibility and Terror: Visual Culture and Violence in the Precarious Life; M.J.Lacy Persistence of Memory? The (New) Surrealism of American Security Policy; K.Grayson Securitizing the Unconscious: The Bush Doctrine of Preemption and Minority Repor; C.Weber The Biopolitics of Security: Oil, Empire and the Sports Utility Vehicle; D.Campbell PART III: REGULATION, SECURITIZATION, PREEMPTION Sovereign Contradictions: Maher Arar and the Indefinite Future; D.Mutimer Abject Spaces, Frontiers, Zones, Camps; E.F. Isin & K.Rygiel Biopolitics and the Tragic Subject of Human Rights; A.Orford Living, Dying, Surviving; E.Dauphinee