The Racial Spectacular: Pandemic Governance Through Dashboards and State Biosecurity
Science, Technology, & Human Values
Published online on August 16, 2024
Abstract
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 565-597, May 2026.
Data visualizations related to COVID-19 operate as forms of spectacle essential to the racialized governance of the pandemic. Guy Debord theorized spectacleas separation—between subjects, populations, regions, dots on a map. We extend and revise Debord's ...
Data visualizations related to COVID-19 operate as forms of spectacle essential to the racialized governance of the pandemic. Guy Debord theorized spectacleas separation—between subjects, populations, regions, dots on a map. We extend and revise Debord's ...