The Pandemic
Monday, January 24, 2022
Giorgio Agamben traces the etymology of the word ‘epidemic’ to the Greek polemos epidemos for civil war, meaning war with an enemy who lives among us, or even within oneself.
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THERE is a story about an evening in late July 1969 when hundreds of monkeys on a coral atoll southwest of Hawai’i died. The US military killed them using ‘Utah’, hot particles dispersed by a bomb detonated in this area of the Pacific Ocean. Military scientists were pleased with the result of the test of a new biological weapon—a secret weapon that can spread and infiltrate, virtually invisibly, the tiniest body crevices.
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