Published: 2023-06-29

Epidemic as a More-than-Human Performance

Mateusz Chaberski Logo ORCID
Section: studies and essays
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.13406

Abstract

Taking a cue from the anthropause (Rutz et al., 2020), which accompanied the current pandemic of COVID-19, the article posits a new approach to an epidemic as a more-than-human performance. The performance is an action resulting from an entanglement of human and more-than-human agencies, producing effects across
socio-political, economic, and cultural contexts. The approach is an alternative to the dominant epidemic narratives, which view epidemics as phenomena of human public health, neglecting more-than-human agencies in their emergence and prevention. While analyzing chosen (re)presentations of an epidemic in popular culture, the article focuses on three aspects of an epidemic as a more-than-human performance. It scrutinizes the new model of sociality it posits, problematizes hitherto accepted ways of thinking about
human and nonhuman bodies, and projects forms of more-than-human cooperation to manage epidemics.

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Chaberski, M. (2023). Epidemic as a More-than-Human Performance. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (46), 43–60. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.13406

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Er(r)go 46 (1/2023)

No. 46 (2023)
Published: 2023-07-03


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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