HERD/Epithelia.
We are thrilled to have Steve Hinchliffe join us to discuss his work on Epithelial Geographies and Multi-Scopic Earthly Terrains.
It’s a small world, unless you’re a microbe. Instead of distances becoming shorter and things speeding up, and the world being characterized only by its sameness, things are also expanding, multiplying, and becoming more uneven. Alongside Marx’s annihilation of space by time or Harvey’s time-space compression, there is time-space proliferation. Living in the Anthropocene is marked by inflammation, biochemical alterations, division, and differentiation. From urban lungs to swelling livestock numbers, earthly terrains are shifting, blistering, and taking on lives of their own. In this seminar, Stephen will discuss with us his recent contributions to recent theorizations of microbe-society relations by focusing on epithelial geographies and multi-scopic earthly terrains. From COVID-19 to American uddersand global chickens, his work outlines a planetary condition that challenges conventional epidemiology to move beyond microbial matters. Swerving anthropomorphism, seeing like a virus aims to generate a form of perceptual reciprocity, a more-than-human phenomenology, wherein people feel viruses and others seeing ‘us’.
The Herd series is shepherded by Kari Lancaster, Marsha Rosengarten, and Nele Jensen.
Please register to attend and to receive pre-reading sent before the session.
