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- Title
Race: The American Trajectory of an Aimless Disease.
- Authors
Olson, Cora; Simpson, Claire
- Abstract
We argue that dominant white cultural views and public health co-produce race as a technology that charts the path of viral transmission away from the white bodies to form a trajectory for an otherwise aimless disease. This epistemological project is one enmeshed in popular culture, medical practice, and biopolitics. COVID-19 and the related Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement work together to make visible the narrative technologies. This project contributes to understanding race and public health as co-constituted in ways that shape imaginative possibilities, material and agential realties, and health outcomes in light of COVID-19. Our argument is novel in naming race a technology of American public health and taking up Coeckelbergh and Reijers's call for a normative theory of narrative technology. We extend Coeckelbergh and Reijers's narrative technologies to include race, a narrative artifact, co-produced by biology, public health, and individual actors.
- Subjects
RACE; BLACK Lives Matter movement; VIRAL transmission
- Publication
Techne: Research in Philosophy & Technology, 2021, Vol 25, Issue 3, p493
- ISSN
0161-7249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/techne2021924145