portada The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media (en Inglés)

The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Bishnupriya Ghosh

Editorial

Duke University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781478016571

Categorías

Estudios sobre medios

The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media (en Inglés)

Bishnupriya Ghosh (Autor) · Duke University Press · Tapa Dura

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In The Virus Touch Bishnupriya Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations between viruses, humans, and nonhuman life. Writing in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 global pandemics, Ghosh theorizes "epidemic media" to show how epidemics are mediated in images, numbers, and movements through the processes of reading test results and tracking infection and mortality rates. Scientific, artistic, and activist epidemic media that make multispecies relations sensible and manageable eschew anthropocentric survival strategies and instead recast global public health crises as biological, social, and ecological catastrophes, pushing us toward a multispecies politics of health. Ghosh trains her analytic gaze on these mediations as expressed in the collection and analysis of blood samples as a form of viral media; the geospatialization of data that track viral hosts like wild primates; and the use of multisensory images to trace fluctuations in viral mutations. Studying how epidemic media inscribe, store, and transmit multispecies relations attunes us to the anthropogenic drivers of pathogenicity like deforestation or illegal wildlife trading and the vulnerabilities accruing from diseases that arise from socioeconomic inequities and biopolitical neglect.