Unveiling seductions beyond societies of control: affect, security, and humour in spaces of aeromobility

Bissell, David; Sharpe, Scott; Hynes, Maria

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Unveiling seductions beyond societies of control: affect, security, and humour in spaces of aeromobility

Date

2012

Authors

Bissell, David

Sharpe, Scott

Hynes, Maria

Publisher

Pion Ltd

Abstract

Taking the bare bodies that starred in the recent Air New Zealand in-fight safety demonstration and advertising campaign as its starting point, this paper stages an encounter between bareness and security in order to think about how affective atmospheres