CIAO DATE: 9/07
Culture and Conflict: Volume 56 (Winter 2005)
Philip K. Dick’s work consisted in imagining from present data the possibility of different social worlds. The human and blind belief in a predictive human science, the power stakes linked to knowledge, the idea that « reality » can be built – and manipulated – are problems the author of Minority Report shares, without knowing it, with the International Relations debates and epistemological reflections. This article suggests a reading of the US National Security Strategy through Philip K. Dick’s new Science Fiction, by articulating three ideas: the idea of a pre-emptive attack, the idea of a fair war and finally the idea of the state of exception at the international scale. The way these ideas articulate allow, with no surprise, to put the light on the not only unilateral but also imperial security logic of the United States.