Introducing contagion design

Gay Hawkins, Ned Rossiter

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Abstract

![CDATA[How is contagion designed? How do labour, migration, economies, habits and data configure contagion? Across a program of four weeks of discussion and debate from October to November 2020, the international symposium Contagion Design: Labour, Economy, Habits, Data explored the current conjuncture through these vectors to critically address issues of rising unemployment, restricted movement, increasing governance of populations through data systems and the compulsory redesign of habits. Design logics underscore both biological contagion and political technologies. Contagion is redesigning how labour and migration are differentially governed, experienced and indeed produced. Habits generate modes of exposure and protection from contagion and become a resource for managing biological and social life. Data turns contagion into models that make a virus actionable and calculable. New modes of sociality and collaboration provoke forms of contagious mutuality. But can the logic of pre-emption and prediction ever accommodate and control the contingencies of a virus? The essays in this small book explore these issues and their implications for cultural, social and political research of biotechnological conditions. If contagion never abandons the scene of the present, if it persists as a constitutive force in the production of social life, how might we redesign the viral as the friend we love to hate?]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationContagion Design: Labour, Economy, Habits, Data
EditorsGay Hawkins, Ned Rossiter
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherOpen Humanities Press
Pages6-12
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781785421174
ISBN (Print)9781785421181
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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