Microbial Resolution : Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes

✍ Scribed by Gloria Chan-Sook Kim;

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Charting the U.S.-led war on the emerging microbe to show how these microbes with their uncertain futures were transformed into objects of global science and security, Gloria Chan-Sook Kim analyzes the complexity that arises when dealing with these entities: what can be seen when there is nothing to see? Microbial Resolution opens the paradoxes, irreconcilabilities, and failures inherent in this project and demonstrates how these tensions animate twenty-first-century epistemologies, aesthetics, affects, and ecologies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Half Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Microbial Resolution
Part I: Aesthetics of Uncertainty
Chapter 1. Pathogenic Nation Making
Chapter 2. Materializing Emerging Microbes
Part II: The Calculative Imaginary
Chapter 3. Flightlines and Sightlines
Chapter 4. Fluid Economies of Biosecurity
Chapter 5. Managing the Microbial Frontier
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Author Biography