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[ecrea] CFP: Special Issue of Theory, Culture and Society: 'Beyond societies of risk and control? Codes and codings in crisis'

Tue Sep 15 16:38:19 GMT 2009



 /Beyond societies of risk and control? Codes and codings in crisis/

Adrian Mackenzie ((a.mackenzie /at/ lancaster.ac.uk) <mailto:(a.mackenzie /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)>, Cesagen, IAS, Lancaster University) and Theo Vurdubakis ((t.vurdubakis /at/ lancaster.ac.uk) <mailto:(t.vurdubakis /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)>, Department of Organisation, Work and Technology,Lancaster University)

Financial, ecological and security crises currently grip the contemporary world. Crises are moments when ?modern? expectations of security and control are disappointed. However, demands for safety and security routinely spill over into anxieties concerning the proliferating mechanisms and apparatuses of control that ?protect? us and at the same time put us ?at risk.? Security and control name both lack and excess. Beck's 'risk society' and Deleuze's 'societies of control' whilst very different, share a concern with what we might call the /codings/ to which the natural and social worlds are made subject, and with the consequences which follow from those codings. Code offers a crucial starting point for any critical exploration of crises and conduct in crisis in their mutual supplementarity and interference. We ask that papers attend to slippages that occur when codes and codings respond to demands that the world be controlled or made safe. We are particularly interested in approaches that combine awareness of broader cultural and political economies of design, science, media, commodification, and subjectification with close attention to concrete material-technical situations (in media, in science, in popular culture, in the military, etc).

Topics of interest would include, but are not limited to:

· What are the genealogies of the forms of code and coding that currently organize our world?

· At what points do understandings of risk societies and societies of control converge or diverge in their treatment of code and codings?

· How do codes capture, entrain and exclude knowledges and forms; how do different orders of being are handled and rendered (in)compatible in coding?

The full call for papers can be found at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/css/downloads/cfp_tcs_risk_control_code_crisis-sept09.pdf


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