For the last fifty years, following the paradigms of ecology of infectious diseases and “One Health”, virologists have collected samples from non-human animals to anticipate spillover events causing pandemics among humans.
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VISUAL Viral Atmospheres
This daily work of monitoring, moving between farms, markets, borders and laboratories, has introduced animals in human communities as sentinels perceiving early warning signals, by contrast with spectacular killings of suspicious animals which redraw the boundaries between humans and animals.
This talk will ask what kind of biopolitics emerges from such a surveillance of animals for pandemic preparedness. Discussing thinkers such as Chamayou, Mbembe, Descola and Povinelli, it will test the hypothesis that modernity is a shift not only from sovereign power to biopolitics, but also from cynegetic power to cryopolitics.
If the subject of cryopolitics is not populations but collection, what kind of emancipation can be conceived for this new form of biopolitics?
- 90-minute lecture followed by discussion
(IN ENGLISH)
Additional information
The Summer School is organized by the research group Medical Anthropology of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg (BNITM, Deutschland) and is funded by the VolkswagenStiftung.Lecture: Frédérick Keck (Laboratoire d‘Anthropologie Sociale, Paris, France)Moderator: Bo Kyeong Seo (Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea) Organizers: Sung-Joon Park and Jacqueline Häußler (BNITM, Hamburg, Deutschland)
Dates
September 2025
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