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1. C£ Paul Virilio, Popular Defense and Ecological Strug, New York: Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series, 1 9 86.

1. The Consumption of Security

1 . The minister was to announce j ust as joyfully on November 20, 1 976: " The Soufriere business is over!" According to the press, this "abortive eruption" had already cost-this was not a final figure-the sum of 200,000,000 francs by mid-October.

Part IV. The State of Emergency

1 . Alfred Wegener, The Origin of Continents and Oceans, a theory of continental drift (fifth edition) .

1. In terms of control, the meaning of this time is a function of the temporal field in which perception, decision and action are involved.

1. The missile-carrying nuclear submarine has in itself the destructive power of all the explosives used in the Second World War.

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