Contagion Design: Labour, Economy, Habits, Data [electronic resource].

Open Humanities Press 2021

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How is contagion designed? How do labour, migration, habits and data configure contagion? Analyzing the current conjuncture through these vectors, this book critically addresses issues of rising unemployment, restricted movement, increasing governance of populations through data systems and the compulsory redesign of habits. Design logics underscore both biological contagion and political technologies. Contagion is redesigning how labour and migration are differentially governed, experienced and indeed produced. Habits generate modes of exposure and protection from contagion and become a resource for managing biological and social life. Data turns contagion into models that make a virus actionable and calculable. New modes of sociality and collaboration provoke forms of contagious mutuality. But can the logic of pre-emption and prediction ever accommodate and control the contingencies of a virus? Taken as a whole, the essays in this small book explore these issues and their implications for cultural, social and political research of biotechnical conditions. If contagion never abandons the scene of the present, if it persists as a constitutive force in the production of social life, how might we redesign the viral as the friend we love to hate?
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Biopolitics
Data mining
Design
Economics
Territory, National
Sociology
Transborder Data Flows

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Gay Hawkins
Ned Rossiter
Mark Andrejevic
Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
Tony Bennett
Franck Cochoy
Ben Dibley
Teppo Eskelinen
Gérald Gaglio
Katherine Gibson
Orit Halpern
Stephen Healy
Rolien Hoyng
Declan Kuch
Joyce C. H. Liu
Anne McNevin
Alexandre Mallard
Brett Neilson
Peter North
Paul Mylecharane
Kim Mumm Hansen
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