Abstract
Unprepared published in 2017 brings together the work published by Andrew Lakoff between 2007 and 2016. The author offers a genealogy of preparedness and describes the assemblage of technologies, utopias and scenarios that constitute it. Lakoff analyzes the passage from an actuarial logic underlying risk prevention - calculating the probability of a risk occurring - to the norms of preparedness - which aim to support preparation for an anticipated risk based on sentinels. These works are discussed here in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic and with the aim to both extend this reflection by proposing the notion of ontological choreography taken from Charis Cussins (1996) to analyze the concrete practices of surveillance and to broaden the extension of preparedness to the consideration of the memory of populations as an experience and competence of risk management.