Summer is coming! New papers and work till fall

After a little break, we are here again in order to expose some points about the work and the research lines we will deploy this summer:

In the first place, we have planned to write three new drafts in order to be sent this fall. Although the three ones have a "central core" around biosecurity, biorrisk and ebola, we have stablished three different topics:

• For the first one, we want to wide the idea we sent to Nómadas Journal, where we talked about State of Emergency, Scenarios, and a new kind of bio-injuction (in contrast to Agamben and his Homo Sacer). The main idea is to affirm we are in a new time where Scenarios in biosecurity (as a new step in the preparedness logic of government) are the place where bios is defined, neither by politics neither law; but by techno-scientific knowledge.
• In the second one, we want to make a deep study about some "apps" like HealthMap in order to gather information about a new kind of "Early Warning Systems 2.0". The main feature of this new technologies, is the possibility of reporting and alerting by a layperson when he or she watches a strange person bleeding in the street, or if a friend has odds symptoms after a trip around Africa. We also want to make an ethnography with this app and finally, to extract the main conclussions about how a new kind of biosurveillance is being shaped.
• About the third one, we want to explain the "acceleration operators" idea once and for all. This last paper is the less-consolidated, but we have wrote a scheme with the key hypothesis that ebola is a path to create/articulate different scales (it is multiscalar). Speed is the characteristic of this path, but not from the biological component but a semiotic-component material.

In the other hand, we are pending about the achievement of a FPU grant by the Spanish Government for one of our students, and we want to collaborate in the next year congress about Social Studies of the Science and Technology, that will be held in Barcelona. Furthermore, we the new fund about our project, we want to make some new interviews with epidemiologist and other experts in the bios. Finally, we also want to make some "gatherings" with experts and lay people in order to close the expert knowledge to the society.

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