2008/07/29 by Matthew T. Witt, Lance deHaven‐Smith · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Education, Philosophy, and Society #Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy #Military, Security, and Education Studies
paper · doi:10.1177/0095399708321682
openalex publication_date 2008/07/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
No current policy paradigm, however interdisciplinary, provides an adequate and coherent account of post-9/11 security doctrine for “a war with no clear end or scope.” Like the hologram, the image of the terrorist constructed by PATRIOT and kindred legislation appears vivid while defying a definitive grasp, just as the holographic image dematerializes on the hand reaching to touch it. This article sketches etiology for a new policy analytic paradigm that is coined here, the Holographic State, and explores its suitability for policy and administrative sense making under conditions where the epistemological and ontological foundations of policy inquiry have been made profoundly unstable.