Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The Politics of Absence: The Real, The Vacant, The Virtual, The Blank, and The Fake
The Politics of Absence: The Real, The Vacant, The Virtual, The Blank, and The Fake
The Real, the Vacant, the Virtual, the Blank, and the Fake
Enacting Pandemics
• “This means that it no longer follows a gaze that tries to see objects but
instead follows objects while they are being enacted in practice. So, the
emphasis shifts. Instead of the observer's eyes, the practitioner's hands
become the focus point of theorizing.” (Mol 2002)
Discomforts in tracing actors’ eyes & hands
1999 2014
Cathedrals
Ornitology (Sætnan
(Giovannoni &
& Bellanova 2017)
Quattrone 2018)
Versions of Absence
Thinking with Zika & Aedes Aegypti
http://francislee.org
Absences of Zika