Software and the Mundane Management of Air Travel

摘要: Over the past thirty years, practices of everyday life have become increasingly infused with and mediated by software captured in code. Software is embedded into objects systems as a means to enhance manage usage link together disparate distanciated parts an infrastructure, enabling new refined processes. In some cases, such air transportation, this embedding has so pervasive vital that if crashes one part system grinds halt, subsequently disrupting other aspects travel. article, we examine system, profiling screening passengers, argue use engendered form governmentality — mundane management having profound effect on operation regulation The development distributed information enabled governments travel businesses capture, cross–reference regulate ongoing status individuals ways were previously difficult, not impossible. By linking these capta together, dense rhizomic assemblage power/knowledge being created; what at best oligoptic (partial selective) nature becoming more panoptic (all–seeing ). This especially case given trend towards increased granularity (resolution) uniqueness (unique identification based biometrics) capta, fact stored are unlikely ever be deleted. These without their problems, particularly regard civil liberties. However, procedures technologies largely been greeted public ambivalence or welcomed, rather than resisted.