Abstract
From ‘connecting the dots’ and finding ‘the needle in the haystack’ to predictive policing and data mining for counterinsurgency, security professionals have increasingly adopted the language and methods of computing for the purposes of prediction. Digital devices and big data appear to offer answers to a wide array of problems of (in)security by promising insights into unknown futures. This paper investigates the transformation of prediction today by placing it within governmental apparatuses of discipline, biopower and big data. Unlike disciplinary and biopolitical governmentality, we argue that prediction with big data is underpinned by the production of a different time/space of ‘between-ness’. The digital mode of prediction with big data reconfigures how we are governed today, which we illustrate through an analysis of how predictive policing actualises between-ness as hotspots and near-real-time decisions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 373-391 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | European Journal Of Social Theory |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 14 Sept 2016 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2017 |
Keywords
- governmentality
- prediction
- big data
- time/space
- security
- policing