...Andrew Lakoff This essay analyzes the evolving controversy over the recent experimental mutation of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) to make it more easily transmissible among mammals. While the controversy has been cast as a debate between bioscience and biosecurity, or between openness and secrecy...

... and Technology 25 , no. 2 : 435 – 37 . Lazer David . 2014 . “ Big Data: The Parable of Google Flu; Traps in Big Data Analysis .” Science 343 , no. 2 : 1203 – 5 . Madrigal Alex C. 2014 . “ In Defense of Google Flu Trends .” Atlantic Monthly , July 20 . www.theatlantic.com...

... Press . Branswell Helen . 2007 . “ Poor Countries Insisting on Bird Flu Rules: They Want Fair Share of Vaccines .” Hamilton Spectator , February 12 . Braun Bruce . 2007 . “ Biopolitics and the Molecularization of Life .” Cultural Geographies 14 , no. 2 : 6 – 28...

... and ruined a federal system that relied on locally operated radio stations to broadcast civil defense warnings. •  It is no accident that flu vaccine is in short supply or that the U.S. govern- ment wants to impose user fees...

... dizzy. Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu, When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too. I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin When he...

... methodologies had long been available to agricultural researchers but only became established in the medical setting once the institutional and sociopolitical structures were aligned in such a way that they were permissible ( Marks 1997) . In earlier trials of insulin and flu vaccines run by the British Medical...

.... Comaroff, Jean, and John Comaroff. 2006. Introduction. Law and disorder in the postcolony. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Davis, Mike. 2005. The monster at our door: The global threat of avian flu. New York: New Press. Decoteau, Claire. 2005. The diseased body politic: The bio-politics of HIV...

... and deadly infectious disease. In announcing its $7.1 billion pandemic preparedness program the following month, the Bush adminis- tration declared avian flu an urgent matter of national security.2 This grouping of various types of possible catastrophe under a shared rubric of “security threats...

... Culture of war technology; but that appearance dissolves in the face of the machine’s flu- idity, its unusual construction, the quality of its fragile body, and the rotor heart— not in any way a human one—that lifts that body into early-postmodern war...

... and was simultaneously engaged in Islamic politics. Living in the United States (not in Saudi Arabia), speaking English flu- ently, using new technologies, fashioning a public image (light-colored headscarf and frameless eyeglasses)—these are all cultural...

... emergence of the black body from its history under apartheid, which this culture seeks in part to remember but largely to transform, and to the relative flu- 7. Tanya Farber, “Loaded with Labels: The Meanings of Clothing amongst Urban Black Youth...

... exercises around biologi- cal threats “generate an affect of urgency in the absence of the event itself” (my italics). As with a feared, but unrealized, outbreak of bird flu, so with an inverted yield curve. Affect accrues to the model (either live-action or graphic) as it crystallizes the possibility...

... in the Global Cultural Economy 11 states (and the groups that seek to capture them) seek to pacify populations whose own ethnoscapes are in motion and whose mediascapes may create severe problems for the ideoscapes with which they are presented. The flu- idity of ideoscapes is complicated...

... Sturken R 5/3/01 3:19 PM Page 165 This Spanish nomenclature allows El Niño to be defined as a foreign entity Desiring the that is visited upon the United States. Just as the “Asian” or the “Hong Kong” flu Weather (or the West Nile virus) reinforce the sense...

..., The Flu&ngo’s Smile (New York W. W. Norton & Co., 1985), 292. 70 Public Culture Hollywood’s filmic corpus offered an abundance of such exotic imagery, at times incorporating actual travelogues, dug from its archives and used in such films...

... and violence), the category of whiteness no longer has the same meanings as it did under colonialism or apartheid. Although the “white condition” has not reached a point of absolute flu- idity that would detach it once and for all from any citation...

...- apurana. Savarkar came from a generation of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth- century Indian intellectuals whose education allowed them to become equally flu- ent in English and Sanskrit. But being able to translate and compose in Sanskrit is not the same as having critical knowledge of Sanskrit...