Nathaniel O’Grady
Protocol and the post-human performativity of security techniques
O’Grady, Nathaniel; O'Grady, Nat
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Nat O'Grady
Abstract
© The Author(s) 2015. This article explores the deployment of exercises by the United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Service. Exercises stage, simulate and act out potential future emergencies and in so doing help the Fire and Rescue Service prepare for future emergencies. Specifically, exercises operate to assess and develop protocol; sets of guidelines which plan out the actions undertaken by the Fire and Rescue Service in responding to a fire. In the article I outline and assess the forms of knowledge and technologies, what I call the ‘aesthetic forces’, by which the exercise makes present and imagines future emergencies. By critically engaging with Karen Barad’s notion of post-human performativity, I argue that exercises provide a site where such forces can entangle with one another; creating a bricolage through which future emergencies are evoked sensually and representatively, ultimately making it possible to experience emergencies in the present. This understanding of exercises allows also for critical appraisal of protocol both as phenomena that are produced through the enmeshing of different aesthetic forces and as devices which premise the operation of the security apparatus on contingency.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Oct 9, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 9, 2015 |
Publication Date | Jul 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Sep 14, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 14, 2017 |
Journal | Cultural Geographies |
Print ISSN | 1474-4740 |
Electronic ISSN | 1477-0881 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 23 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 495-510 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474015609160 |
Keywords | protocol, performativity, security, exercises, aesthetics, posthumanism |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/910123 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474015609160 |
Contract Date | Sep 14, 2017 |
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