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The Racial Spectacular: Pandemic Governance Through Dashboards and State Biosecurity

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Science, Technology, & Human Values

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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 ...