Governing through contingency: The security of biopolitical governance

Dillon, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.08.003

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“…Contingencyöas the unexpected, the random, the singular, the unrepeatable, or the surprising (Dastur, 2000;Dillon, 2007) öforms the key part of what gives multiplayer online videogames the alluring and addictive quality that is absent in most single-player games (Salen and Zimmerman, 2004, pages 572^586). As one user who participated in the testing sessions for Crucial Pivot put it, playing against real humans rather than the computer``makes every match different'', such that one``can never get bored''.…”

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Architectures of Affect: Anticipating and Manipulating the Event in Processes of Videogame Design and Testing

Ash

2010

Environ Plan D

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This paper examines the process of designing and testing multiplayer levels for a large, commercially released videogame. In doing so, it argues that videogame designers work to create the potential for positively affective encounters to occur—a complex and elusive outcome that is key to creating critically and commercially successful multiplayer videogames. By unpacking various examples from this process, the paper attends to debates regarding the distribution and transmission of media affects. Instead of acting to deterministically shape action, I suggest that processes of videogame design are predicated on producing contingency, albeit a contingency that designers attempt to manage and control. In this case, positively affective outcomes can only be understood as a relation between the code space of the game and the embodied techniques users generate in response to these environments.

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Architectures of Affect: Anticipating and Manipulating the Event in Processes of Videogame Design and Testing

Ash

2010

Environ Plan D

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“…As Bradley Klein (1994: 5) (Duncan, 2007;Nally, 2008;Foucault, 2007;Foucault, 2008). And as others have outlined, the legal and biopolitical operations of geopolitical interventions today are sustained by an array of well-established liberal imperial discourses that legitimize the necessity of emergency powers in the name of national security (Gregory, 2006;Dillon, 2007;Kearns, 2008;Barder, 2009). Contemporary imperial geopolitics also works to script the necessity of continued military-economic securitization of the global political economy -and that political economy was built, of course, during the imperial era.…”

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The Imperial Present: Geography, Imperialism, and its Continued Effects

Morrissey

2013

The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography

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“…One risks being overly reductionist here but for the purposes of this discussion I will sketch some reasons for using the term 'anticipation' in this context. The techniques of ubicomp R&D, as We can broadly understand 'anticipation' in relation to a nascent literature, in the social sciences, that charts the themes of anticipatory 'governance', knowledge' and 'logic' (Adey, 2009;Anderson, 2005Anderson, , 2007Anderson, , 2010bAnderson, , 2010aAnderson, , 2011Ash, 2010;Barben et al, 2007;Dillon, 2007;Kraftl, 2008;Shields, 2008). Anderson (2010cAnderson ( , 2010bAnderson ( , 2010aAnderson ( , 2011 addresses anticipatory action principally in relation to undesirable circumstances, such as the mitigation of terrorism, disease pandemic and natural disaster and focuses on their affective registers.…”

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Futures in the Making: Practices to Anticipate ‘Ubiquitous Computing’

Kinsley

2012

Environ Plan A

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This article addresses the discourse for a proactive thinking of futurity, intimately concerned with technology, which comes to an influential fruition in the discussion and representation of 'ubiquitous computing'. The imagination, proposal or playing out of ubiquitous computing environments are bound up with particular ways of constructing futurity. This article charts the techniques used in ubiquitous computing development to negotiate that futurity. In so doing, this article engages with recent geographical debates around anticipation and futurity. The discussion accordingly proceeds in four parts: First, the spatial imagination engendered by the development of ubiquitous computing is explored. Second, particular techniques in ubiquitous computing research and development for anticipating future technology use, and their limits, are discussed through empirical findings. Third, anticipatory knowledge is explored as the basis for stable means of future orientation, which both generates and derives from the techniques for anticipating futures. Finally, the importance of studying future orientation is situated in relation to the somewhat contradictory nature of anticipatory knowledges of ubicomp and related forms of spatial imagination.

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Governing through contingency: The security of biopolitical governance

Cited by 137 publications

References 10 publications

Architectures of Affect: Anticipating and Manipulating the Event in Processes of Videogame Design and Testing

Architectures of Affect: Anticipating and Manipulating the Event in Processes of Videogame Design and Testing

The Imperial Present: Geography, Imperialism, and its Continued Effects

Futures in the Making: Practices to Anticipate ‘Ubiquitous Computing’

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