Politics of prediction: Security and the time/space of governmentality in the age of big data

European Journal of Social Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 373-391

  Aradau, Claudia ^a   Blanke, Tobias ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

big data; governmentality; policing; prediction; security; time space

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027080273     PISSN: 13684310     EISSN: 14617137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368431016667623     Document Type: Article

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