... . “ Playing Chicken with Bird Flu: ‘Viral Sovereignty,’ the Right to Exploit Natural Genetic Resources, and the Potential Human Rights Ramifications .” American University International Law Review 24 , no. 2 : 943 – 67 . Munos Bernard H. Chin William W. 2009 . “ A Call for Sharing...

..., but that it stakes a claim for the ethical virtue of exposure and vulnerability. That these viral commonwealths apprehend not exactly Covid itself, but the risk of infection, as a figure for the historicity of Blackness under the necropolitics of medical apartheid and social death. In order to stage...

... reflections that likewise privilege no address. Our topics in this issue range from suppressed minorities to the arts of catastrophe, from public secrets to secret publics, from post-grid sovereignties to viralized sexualities, and from meditations on incalculable costs to reckoning with unpayable debts...

.... They are attuned to new formations of the sensory self as crucial to belonging. They are alert to dystopic forms of the viral that have made themselves at home in our lifeworlds and on our social media feeds. We sense in these essays a new vein of critical media studies that refuses the gap between stereotypes...

... at support group meetings, for example, by announcing their CD4 T-cell counts and viral loads (Robins 2004a: 7). In these contexts, claiming positive identity can be tan- tamount to a conversion experience: quite literally, a path to salvation...

... acquired sovereignty has enabled individuals to explore previously unavailable urban spaces, to develop innovative forms of political mobilization, and to access, in new ways, health services that had once The facts and biographies recounted here were collected between September 2001 and September...

... be paid or as a public good to be regulated by the state. References Anghie Antony . 2002 . Colonialism and the birth of international institutions: Sovereignty, economy, and the mandate system of the League of Nations . New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 34...

.... In this way they represent the exceptional moment of sovereignty and political founding. On the other hand, their advocacy of sacrifice presents a permanent and as it were structural threat to such a politics of the future. And this means that children stand in the way of the very sacrifice they encourage...

... of self and sovereignty are debated, thought through, and lived in public and intimate affective life (Jalal 2000 ; Khan 2012 ; Mahmudabad 2020a ). Poetry serves as a mimetic archive , an archive of ethical and affective potential (Mazzarella 2017 ). To give some sense of the contours...

... on her forehead, she sings, “I am perplexed by this tradition and these people. They sell girls for money. No right to choose.” With the help of the film’s director, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Sonita posts her video on YouTube, where it goes viral (it was also shown on Afghani TV). As a result of the video...

... that keeps positive energy vital and viral. On the one hand, the ways in which sentiment analysis gets repackaged and deployed in yuqing analytics accord with the broader Chinese imaginary about the crowd. From the 1970s onward, US academia largely rejected crowd psychology. Its sociologists...

... the subject of considerable controversy and confusion in the field of psychoanalysis. See Cho 2006; Freud 1990 (1920), 2010 (1933); Marcuse 1966; Wallace 1976 . 4 A tourist’s video, which went viral, captured the scene after the hit (“Madan Tamang Murder in Darjeeling” 2010). 5 Cf...