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

>  /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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