Kim, Gloria ChanSook
Microbial Resolution: Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes (Proximities)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781517911706
- author:
- Kim, Gloria ChanSook
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 14 x 1.3 centimetres (0.3
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Media Studies,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The War Against Emerging Microbes: A New Theory of Vision and Visuality In 1989, a group of US government scientists gathered to discuss surprising findings about new diseases emerging around the world. Viruses thought long vanquished were resurfacing, sparking a new concept of disease: the "emerging microbe". This phenomenon led to a reorientation of national security against biological risks, as American scientists and experts sought to confront this new threat. To be fought, emerging microbes needed to be made perceptible. But how could something immaterial, unknowable, and ever-mutating be coaxed into visibility, knowability, and operability? 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, Kim shows how a visual impasse forms the basis for new modes of perceiving, knowing, and governing in the present.
Related Products
Related Products
Microbe Wars
Arbuthnott, Gill
War Against War!
Ernst Friedrich, Bruce Kent
Against War
Elslberg, Robert
Barbara's War the Resolution
Miller, Mrs Fenella Jane
The War Against the a**holes
Sam Munson