... of medical and public health intervention. As an epigenetic vector, the maternal body is at once a background element, a medium for the fetus. Yet it is also a ‘critical’ developmental context in which environmental exposures are amplified, cues are transmitted, and genes are programmed. Reflection...

... olfactory, audio, and even taste architectures of retailers and hotel-casinos as well as the politics of touching in Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. The chapter presents these often overlooked impulses as powerful and active vectors of the commercial environment. By exploring examples of each individual mode...

... and nature as vectors of queer intimacy, rethinking the pastoral and animality. melodrama pastoral touch historical film haptic ...

... Communist writer Ding Ling, this chapter underscores how fascists prized the efficient creation of a singular national voice. It is also in their prescriptions for nationalist literature and arts that fascism’s competing vectors of elitism and populism are particularly apparent. Nationalist...

... Since the introduction of effective treatment in 1996, people with HIV are increasingly viewed by the criminal justice and public health systems through the lens of their potential to infect, as viral vectors and inherent dangers to society. Contrary to the initial intent of these statutes, HIV...

... months. In this climate of health vigilance, there was increased focus on the mutability of viruses (SARS, avian flu virus, etc.) and worries about rapid nonhuman to human transmission in a region densely interlinked by commerce, migration, travel, and environmental vectors. The chapter frames the battle...

... With the growing use of armed drones by the U.S. homeland security state, the nexus of race, space, and visuality has developed a vector of verticality—racialization from above—to supplement the long history of racialization on the ground, both in the United States and abroad. Taking the killing...

... by the criminal justice and public health systems through the lens of their potential to infect, as viral vectors and inherent dangers to society. Contrary to the initial intent of these statutes, HIV criminalization is furthering the spread of the virus. Reform is urgently needed to stem the tide of HIV...

..., and environmental vectors. The chapter frames the battle against tropical diseases as an emerging biosecurity assemblage that shapes cascading scales of intervention. It identifies problems presented by the flows of “mutable mobiles”—deadly viruses, their animal and human carriers—as well as spatializing techniques...

... by the abstractions of the war. U.S. militarism drone wars queer calculus performance Wafaa Bilal With the growing use of armed drones by the U.S. homeland security state, the nexus of race, space, and visuality has developed a vector of verticality—racialization from above—to supplement the long...