*OTHER VIROLOGIES == OTHER EPIDEMOLOGIES
... it is necessary to reconfigure notions of intimacy and reproduction across the planet: minerals, mosquitoes, settlers, gases, solar rays, and other bodies share in reproductive metabolisms crossing scales, species, and systems, invigorating “performances of adjustment that make a shared atmosphere something palpable.” Atmosphere, then, has a double valence: it signals both the interspecies intimacy structured by geophysical forces of the earth and the ambient senses of crisis, withering, and extermination that intensify as the underside of neoliberal freedom. Atmospheric intimacies signal that the reproductive forces and waste effects of carbon intensify contradictions between precarity and freedom, reforming the political through a model of action distinct from the agency of the human sovereign.
Neel Ahuja, Intimate Atmospheres, Queer Theory in a Time of Extinctions
❝The U.K. Government gave Peter Thiel's Palantir access to sensitive NHS patient data. A contract published online on Friday shows that Palantir is charging the NHS just £1 for its services. Britain's National Health Service has given secretive U.S. tech firm Palantir access to private personal data of millions of British citizens, according to a contract published online. The NHS health records that Palantir has access to can include a patient's name, age, address, health conditions, (...)
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/palantir-nhs-covid-19-data.html
TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF VS PUBLIC HEALTH
Care + expertise
networks of care around prisons?
do people that do care-work know? what about their collective wisdom?
care (ac)counting, there is a scaling issue
Relational health: if yo're not healthy, nobody is healthy https://uppingtheanti.org/blog/entry/the-virus-is-a-relation
Pirate Care sessions https://syllabus.pirate.care/session/coronavirusandenvironmentalcrisis/
Natacha Roussel "La science ne connaît comme remède que la séparation des corps plutôt que l’organisation de la solidarité et le partage du savoir." https://expansive.info/Pourtant-nous-etions-feministes-2161
Mandy de Wilde, Weera Koopman and Annemarie Mol, On Hygiene and Pollution http://somatosphere.net/2020/clean-in-times-of-covid-19.html/
Ling Ma, Severance (2018)
Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani, eds. AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (2020)
Eula Bliss, On Immunity (and family)
Useful maybe because it is TOO MUCH (and not a lot of bio) https://the-syllabus.com/coronavirus-readings/
https://the-politics-of-covid-19.com/search/?q=virologist&size=n_30_n
Useful maybe because it is terrible: David Quammen, Spillover
Anti-crisis readinglist (Helen Pritchard) https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/remote.anticrisisreadinglist
Achille Mbembe: the universal right to breathe https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/the-universal-right-to-breathe/
universal health, individual needs
privacy vs. security
BIOPOLITICS AND MATH
Elizabeth Povinelli in Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism + here: https://video.constantvzw.org/Four_rooms/Four%20Rooms%20%e2%80%93%20Elizabeth%20A.%20Povinelli,%20on%20Virus%20and%20Interdependence%20of%20Lives,%20m...-151814866175052.mp4
Preciado: Learning from the virus https://www.artforum.com/print/202005/paul-b-preciado-82823
relations between biopolitics and math ...
the modeller and their lovers / monogamic panic / domestic amalgamations
Models vs evidence https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/jonathan-fuller-models-v-evidence
epidemic modeling / differing scientific traditions
statistics vs. math
Susan L. Erikson, Cell Phones Self and Other Problems with Big Data Detection and Containment during Epidemics
Virologists
Epidemologists
ANTI-EUGENIC ETHICS
Braidotti: Nomadic Ethics?
Dysgenic: biologically defective or deficient (dysgenic disobedience?)
Sylvia Wynter 'Eugenic descent' via Amaro
It is worth it at this juncture to return to the wider logic of enumeration that have informed these processes, what Wynter describes as the eugenic descent, or the operational decline imposed by the colonial episteme. Wynter’s adoption of this point of reference extends the artificiality of regulated attributes into the substances of class, sexual orientation and race. Her claim is sustained by the creation of what she describes as eugenic/dysgenic selection.
OPTIMISATION AND PREDICTION
MckKenzie, what does prediction want
Against prediction
https://nooscope.ai/
Optimization, what does optimization want!
Flatten the Curve
The vector of age https://ctxt.es/es/20200401/Firmas/32134/Daniel-Lopez-Gomez-coronavirus-vejez-salvacion-confinamiento.htm#.XrZtz2K6CDQ.twitter