Bishnupriya Ghosh

The Virus Touch

Theorizing Epidemic Media

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bishnupriya Ghosh examines the media practices that inscribe and transmit data about infectious diseases and shape how we live with perpetual pandemics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2023
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781478016571
• ISBN-10: 1478016574
• Artikelnr.: 63871179

Autorenporträt

Bishnupriya Ghosh

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  vii
List of Abbreviations  xi
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction: Epidemic Media  1
1. The Epidemic Episteme: Health as Multispecies Politics  35
2. The -Morphic Image: Visualizing the Virus  77
3. The Sensible Medium: Clinical Translations of Blood  113
4. The Multispecies Kinesthetic: Tracking Animal Host Movements  157
Conclusion: Media Theory (in a Pandemic)  199
Notes  211
Bibliography  255
Index  277