Archipelago of Risk: Uncertainty, Borders and Migration Detention Systems

Angela Mitropoulos

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Abstract: This essay takes Deleuze’s ‘Postscript’ as a point of departure for a theory of risk analytics. The illustrative case in this essay is the Australian ‘Detention Network’, a vast system of migration detention that has been wholly privatised since 1997 and has served as a laboratory for similar systems in other parts of the world. This illustration tests the limits of normative and constructivist theories of risk. The principal argument in this essay is that contemporary analytics of risk are preoccupied with integrating uncertainty (or uninsurable risk) into formulations of risk, and that this necessarily gives rise to complex, archipelagic systems of abstract and physical dimensions. it places the emphasis on contracts as mechanisms that assemble stochastic processes into sociotechnical systems and forms of value.

Date: 2017-02-19
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