“The Fittest Survive”, still “The Fittest Survive”, still “The Fittest Survive”, still “The Fittest Survive”, still The website of one of these armed educational institutions, the British AKE Group, promises clients “the competitive advantage of engaging safely in areas that might otherwise have been closed to opportunity”. Private security companies prepare state and corporate clients for this sudden-death Social Darwinism in bespoke civilian training programs that mimic conflict situations of varying complexity up to and including warfare. Installation view: “Traurig sicher, im Training”, Grazer Kunstverein / Steirischer Herbst, Graz, 2006 The essentially warlike character of market economics demands the impossible, making life a battleground where the stakes of “satisfactory performance” are murderous and suicidal. Crisis regions are growth areas: frontier markets multiply the blood spilled on former colonial frontiers. These erstwhile deterrents are factors to be calculated, mastered, hedged and traded by the best and strongest: a “challenge”, an “opportunity” and a useful test of the ruthlessness required from economic “achievers”. “Risk” and “danger”, “disaster” and “wilderness” are no longer the disavowed flipside of the globalisation dream.
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