The Securopolis: (Re)assembling Surveillance, Resilience, and Affect

This paper explores how modern urban life is being re-assembled into a ‘securopolis.’ The securopolis is a form of urban life in which humans enact a ‘watchfulness’ (i.e. surveillance) combined with a ‘readiness for the worse’ (i.e. resilience) which is embedded into the physical and affective (emot...

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Main Author: Peter Rogers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture 2018-11-01
Series:On_Culture
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Online Access:https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-6/rogers-securopolis/