Who is in charge of responding to a disaster? Is it the top-down command structure with its nested hierarchies of control – strategy (eg disaster managers in a police department) , tactics (the multiple sites of damage or contamination), operations (the first responders in the field). Or is it a bottom-up network with self-organising properties? Remote controlled dronecams sweeping the sky or mobile phonecam data thrown up by people on the ground? What is at stake is the ownership of a field of perception. Who sees, wins. See Paul Virilio on the “logistics of perception”:
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