Denials ‘From Seabed to Space’: Assemblages of (In)Security and Denial in the Politics of Security

Despite critiques of denials broadly underlying Critical International Relations deconstructions state, security and subjectivity, there is little explicit exploration the ontological status denial, how operate in politics (in)security. Animated by question, why web actors interests traversing public private spheres involved provision endure despite long-running critique, this article problematises = denials. An theorisation denial needs to be put centre stage study security. Drawing on Dillon’s unstable duality (in)security synthesising it with a Deleuze Guattarian assemblage approach, theorises two forms – complicity impossibility as ontologically necessary for (in)security; then proposes that we scrutinise expose assemblages These form, expand, thriving its attendant complicities; forming symbioses public-private realms. Assemblages adapt, propagate new technologies (in)security, often ironically responding demands from critique. Without an assemblage-based thinking, are methodologically ill-equipped trace, critique without unwittingly partaking sustaining it. Des dénis « du fond des océans jusqu’à l’espace » : agencements d’(in)sécurité et déni dans la politique de sécurité