A strange sky: Security atmospheres and the technological management of geopolitical conflict in the case of Israel's Iron Dome,The Geographical Journal

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A strange sky: Security atmospheres and the technological management of geopolitical conflict in the case of Israel's Iron Dome
The Geographical Journal ( IF 3.6 ) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 , DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12444
Ian Slesinger ₁

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This paper uses Israel's technologically advanced Iron Dome short-range missile defence system as a deep empirical case study to examine how affective atmospheres mediate the relationship between state power and the agency of technological objects deployed to govern (in)security. Drawing theoretically from productive tensions between more-than-human theories of object-oriented ontology, actor-network theory and affect theory, it evaluates Iron Dome as a scintillating ‘bright object’ with variable capacities and limitations that exceed the sum of its components. Iron Dome both overreaches and contradicts the intentions and governance logics of state elites within a spatio-temporally distributed array of architectures, infrastructures and practices. Within this milieu, its affective power is ambivalent and capricious, and can both enhance and undermine the atmospheric production of security in ways that exceed both instrumental functionality and human intentions. These findings indicate how a geography of security that attends to the affective dimension of object politics can account for the complex and non-causal ways in which technologies can either reinforce or inhibit security as an anthropocentric endeavour.

中文翻译：

奇异的天空：以以色列铁穹为例的安全气氛和地缘政治冲突的技术管理

本文使用以色列技术先进的铁穹短程导弹防御系统作为深入的实证案例研究，研究情感氛围如何调节国家权力与部署用于管理（不）安全的技术对象机构之间的关系。从理论上借鉴了面向对象的本体论、行动者网络理论和情感理论之间的生产性张力，它将 Iron Dome 评估为一个闪烁的“明亮物体”，其可变容量和限制超过了其组成部分的总和。Iron Dome 在时空分布的架构、基础设施和实践阵列中，既超出了范围，也违背了国家精英的意图和治理逻辑。在这种环境中，它的情感力量是矛盾而反复无常的，并且可以以超出工具功能和人类意图的方式增强和破坏安全的大气生产。这些发现表明，关注对象政治的情感维度的安全地理学如何能够解释技术可以加强或抑制作为人类中心努力的安全的复杂和非因果方式。

更新日期：2022-04-28

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