Microbial resolution visualization and security in the war against emerging microbes / Gloria Chan-Sook Kim.
| Author/creator | Kim, Gloria Chan-Sook, 1976- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2024] |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Proximities |
| Contents | Pathogenic nation making -- Materializing emerging microbes -- Flightlines and sightlines -- Fluid economies of biosecurity -- Managing the microbial frontier. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | "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. "-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024000293 |
| ISBN | 9781517911706 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781517911690 (library binding) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |