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Insecurity and precarity have developed into normalized states in our living worlds. On the individual level we experience unstable labor conditions and the increasingly dispersed nature of social networks, while in geopolitical terms, terrorism and immigration have brought the rhetoric of securitization to fever pitch. Anxieties to secure ourselves imprint our lives in an omnipresent manner, ranging from interpersonal to international scale. The rise of these extraordinary measures of securitization is in this form and extent unprecedented in human history.