id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-006203-wwpd26bx Nguyen, Vinh-Kim When the world catches cold: Thinking with influenza 2016-02-26 .txt text/plain 2273 87 41 Caduff, Keck and MacPhail all write against more sensationalistic accounts of pandemic flu with their dramatic tropes of virus hunters and looming catastrophe, seeking rather to demystify and explain in these ethnographies of influenza research. The temporal modality, perhaps most familiar to readers of this journal from the concept of the experiment as a "machine for producing the future" (Rheinberger,1997, quoting the Nobel prize-winning molecular biologist François Jacob), is most explicitly indebted to classical studies of witchcraft, oracles and divination (Evans-Pritchard, 1963) to more contemporary examinations of risk and uncertainty in clinical practice, global health and everyday life. Thinking about regimes of anticipation can bring in conversations that have emerged in contemporary ethnography around the work of Elizabeth Povinelli and specifically her notions of social tense and "the future anterior" as a mode of late liberal governmentalitya gesture made by Caduff. ./cache/cord-006203-wwpd26bx.txt ./txt/cord-006203-wwpd26bx.txt