Imagining Inside: The header image of this post shows the most detailed model of a human cell in existence; Evan Ingersoll and Gael McGill used a combination of x-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryoelectron microscopy datasets to create an interactive cellular landscape. Anyone can visit the website and transport themselves into a cell that, … Continue reading Anthropomorphizing the Body
COVID-19 and the Outbreak Narrative
Introducing the Outbreak Narrative Unsanitary: Beth Emhoff blows her saliva over some dice for luck. Evie Kendal writes that “the […] blockbuster film, Contagion (2011)” is guilty of perpetuating the “common ‘outbreak narrative,’” a term coined by Priscilla Wald, “in which a pathogen is introduced into the developed world via contact with migrants and visitors … Continue reading COVID-19 and the Outbreak Narrative
The Rhetoric of Pandemic Art
Vaccination as mass medicine: Edwin Buckman's 1871 engraving, published in The Graphic, shows a physician vaccinating crowds of poor children at a dispensary in the East End of London. What is Pandemic Art? In referring to pandemic art, I am grouping together not only the anatomical diagrams popularized in the late eighteenth century, but also … Continue reading The Rhetoric of Pandemic Art
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