Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Risk and Reproblematisation; 1.3 Methods and the Digital Infrastructure; 1.4 Chapter Outline; References; 2: Genealogies of the Future: The Emergence of Fire Governance in the UK; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Great Fire of London; 2.3 The Insurance Brigades; 2.4 A Public Good and Private Enterprise; 2.5 Fire and War; 2.6 Conclusion; References; 3: Assembling Interfaces to Make Sense of the Future; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The FRS' Digital Infrastructure and Interface

3.3 Interface and the Fusion of Cognitive Capacities3.4 Routines and the Unintentional Consequences of Interfaces; 3.5 Conclusion; References; 4: Exercising Uncertainty: Aesthetic Renderings of Future Emergencies; 4.1 Thinking Aesthetics, Complex Uncertainty and Decentred Performativity; 4.2 Designing Exercises; 4.3 Performing Exercises; 4.4 The 'Realism' of Simulated Futures; 4.5 Affects, Attunement and Contingency: The Making and Remaking of Protocol; 4.6 Conclusion; References; 5: Big Data, Subjectification and Preventing Fires; 5.1 Introduction

5.2 Bringing Big Data into the Fire and Rescue Service5.3 Governing the Vulnerable Subject Through Prevention; 5.4 Counter-Conduct, Counter-Subjectification; 5.5 Conclusion; References; 6: Be Prepared, To Protect: Detournement and the Forces Behind Governmental Logics; 6.1 Affective Conditions of Preparedness in Fire Governance; 6.2 Protection and the Elemental Materiality of Security; 6.3 Orchestrating Relations Through the Regulatory Reform Order (2005); 6.4 Conclusion; References; 7: Conclusion; 7.1 Lived Relations to Risk; 7.2 The Politics of Data and Technology

7.3 Times of the Future7.4 Risk's Absence as a Critique of the Present; References; Index