Endemic Essays in Contagion Theory
This book develops a new multimodal theoretical model of contagion for interdisciplinary scholars, featuring contributions from influential scholars spanning the fields of medical humanities, philosophy, political science, media studies, technoculture, li
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Endemic
Kari Nixon • Lorenzo Servitje Editors
Endemic Essays in Contagion Theory
Editors Kari Nixon English Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas, USA
Lorenzo Servitje Department of English University of California Riverside Riverside, California, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-52140-8 ISBN 978-1-137-52141-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52141-5
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Foreword
Nothing in the past half century has dramatized the global ecosystem as profoundly as the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It lacked the stunning immediacy of the explosion of an atom bomb, or the dismaying alienation of the revelation of genocidal violence. But in its powerful narrative arc, it is a human drama writ large. It is the story of ecological violence in its broadest sense told on a planetary stage: a tale of destruction, discrimination, and resilience infused by, but exceeding, the experiences of every individual whose life it took or touched. And who really was exempt? It is therefore not surprising that the scenario of an outbreak exploding into a species-threatening pandemic (or threatening to) proliferated in the wake of the first decade of the pandemic, from the more or less journalistic accounts such as Hot Zone, The Coming Plague, and their cinematic manifestations to the veritable industry of zombie apocalypses from I Am Legend to World War Z, Zone One, and beyond. But even the world-changing HIV/AIDS pandemic cannot sufficiently account for the popularity of these contagion narratives. There
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