Disruptive Technologies for Security and Defence: Temporality, Performativity and Imagination

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Disruptive Technologies for Security and Defence: Temporality, Performativity and Imagination

Emerging technologies are increasingly portrayed as having disruptive effects in security and defense. A new analytical framework allows for the study of such technologies along three analytical axes: temporality, performativity, and imagination.

By Raluca Csernatoni

Published on Jun 19, 2023

Taylor & Francis Online

About the Author

Raluca Csernatoni

Fellow, Carnegie Europe

Csernatoni is a fellow at Carnegie Europe, where she specializes on European security and defense, as well as emerging disruptive technologies.

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