ABSTRACT
The presence of digital technologies in everyday activities not only affords specific technologies of governing, but it also nurtures the very discourses about being and knowledge that resilience programs are based upon: complexity and interconnectedness. These discourses take the material or machinic aspect of technology as a vantage point when they address, for example, how the Internet and the many Internet-based services raise complexity within society. The fact that digital technologies are increasingly paired with a governmental discourse of complexity thinking has concrete effects on technologies of the self, meaning the actual practices of governing. While Duffield claims that 'the roll-out of an embedded digital infrastructure transforms the desired qualities of resilience into a cybernetic command and control function', this chapter suggests that command-and-control does not capture the full logic of the digital. At the same time as programming indeed locks disaster populations 'into digital interfaces', the digital also incentivizes populations in its very own modus of operation.
