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cord-283824-c7y9zf7o	Opitz, Sven	Regulating epidemic space: the nomos of global circulation	2015-02-20		.txt	text/plain	8618	492	46	The first concerns the referent object of governmental practice: the regulatory effort to secure global public health does not focus on human life so much as it does on post-human materialities of global traffic. Most importantly, the key passages of the IHR read like a clear-cut manifestation of the liberal government of circulation: 'The purpose and scope of these Regulations are to prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade.' (IHR, Article 2) The mobility of disease and the mobility of goods and people are conjoined in this problem space. These bodies of transmission belong to a governmental vision that pictures the world as a space of universal traffic and that focuses on routes and material means of global circulation.	./cache/cord-283824-c7y9zf7o.txt	./txt/cord-283824-c7y9zf7o.txt