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Microbial Resolution
2024
Overview
Why the global health project to avert emerging microbes
continually fails
In 1989, a group of U.S. government scientists met to discuss
some surprising findings: new diseases were appearing around the
world, and viruses that they thought long vanquished were
resurfacing. Their appearance heralded a future perpetually
threatened by unforeseeable biological risks, sparking a new
concept of disease: the \"emerging microbe.\" With the Cold War
nearing its end, American scientists and security experts turned to
confront this new \"enemy,\" redirecting national security against
its risky horizons. In order to be fought, emerging microbes first
needed to be made perceptible; but how could something immaterial,
unknowable, and ever mutating be coaxed into visibility,
knowability, and operability?
Microbial Resolution charts the U.S.-led war on the
emerging microbe to show how their uncertain futures were
transformed into objects of global science and security. Moving
beyond familiar accounts that link scientific knowledge production
to optical practices of visualizing the invisible, Gloria Chan-Sook
Kim develops a theory of \"microbial resolution\" to analyze the
complex problematic that arises when dealing with these entities:
what can be seen when there is nothing to see? Through a syncretic
analysis of data mining, animal-tracking technologies, media
networks, computer-modeled futures, and global ecologies and
infrastructures, she shows how a visual impasse-the impossibility
of seeing microbial futures-forms the basis for new modes of
perceiving, knowing, and governing in the present.
Timely and thought provoking, Microbial Resolution
opens up the rich paradoxes, irreconcilabilities, and failures
inherent in this project and demonstrates how these tensions
profoundly animate twenty-first-century epistemologies, aesthetics,
affects, and ecologies.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Subject
ISBN
9781517911706, 1517911702, 9781452971308, 1452971307
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