From Volume 459 of the Annals of Pre-emptive Securitization:
The university's Board of Trustees proposed and unanimously approved the fingerprinting policy earlier this fall as a way to better protect minors on campus from potential criminals, reportedly following the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse case that rocked Pennsylvania State University in 2011. "It's prudent for us to do our due diligence and make sure we don't hire people like that," Florida Gulf Coast President Wilson Bradshaw told local media last month."
Cf Brian Massumi's analysis of the "future birth of the affective fact":
The basic example of the indexical sign is the connection between smoke and fire.... faith in a connection between smoke in the present and future fire.... the smoke is predictive of fires to come. Except now, with preemption, it doesn’t predict them, it causes them. It is like watching footage of a fire in reverse: there will have been fire, in effect, because there is now smoke. But what if it’s fog? And what if the fog is a cloud of white powder … quick, close the airport! The airport must be closed just in case, to assuage the fear. The closure of the airport induces fear. Men in white decontamination suits descend. Police swarm in for crowd control. Far-flung airports with originating flights due to land are affected. The media amplify the alarm in real-time with live news bulletins. The fear of the disruption has become the disruption.
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