The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond ProbabilitySince September 11, 2001, the imagination of "low probability, high consequence" events has become a distinctive feature of contemporary politics. Uncertain futures devastation by terrorist attack, cyber crime, flood, financial market collapse must be discerned and responded to as possibilities, however improbable they may be. In The Politics of Possibility, Louise Amoore examines this development, tracing its genealogy through the diverse worlds of