Unveiling Seductions beyond Societies of Control

Affect, Security, and Humour in Spaces of Aeromobility

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4476359
AutoresDavid Bissell (0000-0003-0964-186X, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia), M Hynes (0000-0002-3087-5540, Australian National University), Scott Sharpe (0000-0002-8843-8589, School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, University College, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia)
Año2012
Volumen30
Número4
Páginas694-710
Fecha de publicación2012-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d22510
OpenAlexW2116473698
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas27
Referencias citadas50

Taking the bare bodies that starred in the recent Air New Zealand in-flight safety demonstration and advertising campaign as its starting point, this paper stages an encounter between bareness and security in order to think about how affective atmospheres might be engineered and manipulated within spaces of aeromobility. From a representational perspective the bare bodies appeal to a particular economy of truth through the unveiling of the corporation, parodying the bareness that is a central technique associated with airport securitisation. But the bareness in the in-flight safety demonstration generates a different kind of intimacy between the corporation and the passenger that facilitates the emergence of affective atmospheres which hinge around fun and lightness. In light of theorisations that invoke the corporation as a model of the control society we finish by drawing out some of the tensions that hinge around figures of veiling and unveiling to demonstrate how affect necessarily exceeds its capture and engineering

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