Becoming Secure: Addressing the Aporia Between (in)Security by Sherrin Frances.

Abstract: Becoming Secure: Addressing the Aporia Between (in)Security by Sherrin Frances.
While transparency along a secure border calls to attention an aporia, it is not the initial question of the paradoxical achievement of security through a state of innate insecurity. Rather, it becomes a question as to how the collapse of inside/outside dichotomy via transparency leads to a dramatic reconfiguration of space, time and light. Is it possible to renegotiate this assembly such that the tautological existence of both the complete occlusion of visibility AND the complete exposure instigated by the transparency of security has somehow redefined the call of conscience? Is it possible that we are no longer awaiting Heidegger's "Guilty!" but rather, Barthes' "Look!"?"

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