ABSTRACT
Resilience is a governmental program that affectively modulates populations' relationship to emergencies. The aim of such programs is to open up populations to the unexpected, envisaging that affects of urgency and emergency eventually translate into action. This chapter explores another dimension of resilience as a form of governing the Internet, German cyber-exercise case studies provides insights into the imaginaries of insecurity in an interconnected world and make observable the dynamics of acting-out security. It explores in what way affective life is part of dealing with emergencies and how resilience relates to the subject's capacity to act. It unveils resilience as an affective technique of governing emergencies that imbues life with a sense of "urgency that demands response". The chapter develops the argument that resilience instills specific power dynamics that are closely linked to the affectivity of the emergency: resilience relies upon the subject's capacity to be affected by insecurity and its power to respond to this urgency with action.
