The Technological Pandemic: Continuing to Build a Critical Framework
Pandemic technologies are used to manage the specific, lived consequence set into motion by an amoral, unthinking biological agent—in this case the SARS-CoV-2 virus—that is powerfully transformative and disruptive in its own right. Nishant introduces us to us the pandemic as a transformative context: a bodily, local, or larger stage where humans invest and activate meaning, power, fear, and love by way of the brutally biological.
Published in CUHK, Digital Narrative Studios Blog, 2024
Topics: COVID-19 & Disability Justice | Critical Internet Studies | Fake Documentary | Feminist Media | Pandemic Media | Pedagogy | Public Writing | Recent Work (2024-25) |