Microbial Resolution: Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes

An interdisciplinary study charting the war against microbial futures leads to a new theory of contemporary vision and visuality

In 1989, a group of U.S. government scientists met to discuss some surprising findings: new diseases were appearing around the world, and viruses that they thought long vanquished were resurfacing. Their appearance heralded a future perpetually threatened by unforeseeable biological risks, sparking a new concept of disease: the “emerging microbe.” With the Cold W...