“Trust your immune system.” One often hears this slogan, or some version of it, from people who are against vaccination. But what does it mean, or what should it mean for an intensely social species like ours, living in a microbiologically fluid and creative environment like Earth’s biosphere? We can only trust something if we […]
Posts Tagged ‘networks’
“Trust your (foamy) immune system”
Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-theory, tagged actor-network theory, anti-vaccination movement, co-immunism, co-immunology, COVID-19, Foams, immunity, immunological theory, networks, Peter Sloterdijk, public health, Spheres on August 2, 2021 | 7 Comments »
NT8: Wendy Chun’s networks
Posted in Media ecology, tagged networks, Nonhuman Turn on May 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Wendy Chun, “Imagined networks” I will read quickly and show you more than I read. (Warning to readers: so this trans/re/scription will not be adequate.) Threat that internet will be turned to a series of gated communities. Spam is another way to say I love you. This danger can be attenuated not through more security […]