{"product_id":"microbial-resolution-visualization-and-security-in-the-war-against-emerging-microbes-hardback-9781517911690","title":"Microbial Resolution; Visualization and Security in the War Against Emerging Microbes (Hardback) 9781517911690","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMicrobial Resolution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVisualization and Security in the War Against Emerging Microbes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGloria Chan-Sook Kim (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517911690\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 54 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.425 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"How can we secure ourselves against a life-form that is invisible yet omnipresent? Untouchable yet capable of remaking the planet? Gloria Chan-Sook Kim’s visual methodology proposes a clear optic for understanding how global health responses to microbial threats will fail unless we wrestle with the systems that perpetuate the conditions for the next mutant microbe on the horizon.\"-Stefanie R. Fishel, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Now that we all care about microbial emergence, here is a fabulous book-researched just prior to the Covid-19 pandemic-that gives us the epistemological tools to understand it. Gloria Chan-Sook Kim’s timely study examines the scientific practices, media, and discourses that anticipate microbial populations to come, ever attentive to the visual politics of resolution.\"-Melody Jue, author of \u003ci\u003eWild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn interdisciplinary study charting the war against microbial futures leads to a new theory of contemporary vision and visuality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMicrobial Resolution\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Timely and thought provoking, \u003ci\u003eMicrobial Resolution\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Preface \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction: Microbial Resolution \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part I. Aesthetics of Uncertainty \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. Pathogenic Nation Making \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. Materializing Emerging Microbes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part II. The Calculative Imaginary \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. Flightlines and Sightlines \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. Fluid Economies of Biosecurity \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. Managing the Microbial Frontier \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619255841048,"sku":"9781517911690","price":67.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/microbial-resolution-visualization-and-security-in-the-war-against-emerging-microbes-hardback-9781517911690","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}