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Becoming Virus

Media anthropology of the quarantine subject in the context of biopolitics and psychopolitics

Summary/Abstract: In this text, along the concepts of virality, immunology, biopolitics and psychopolitics, I try to analyse the quarantine subject from media anthropological perspective. The digital quarantine experience of the current pandemic shows that an interpretation based on psychoplitics or biopolitics alone is not sufficient to analyse the situation, as the quarantine subject encounters the suppressed “truth” of the psyche that in fact he is (also) a body, although this awakening to a traumatic experience happens quite differently than before the digital revolution. And that’s exactly the point, because contemporary smart power plays a hybrid game in the sense of re-coding biopolitics through psychopolitics, while optimizing psychopolitics through biopolitical tools. In my analysis, I try to reconstruct the structure of these feedback loop systems.

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