4S/EASST Deadline for Call for Papers is coming!

As we are announcing from December, the 4S/EASST International STS Congress is Calling for Papers in each one of the accepted tracks. POBICS is convinor in one of them. Remember the title of it is: "Biorisk Intelligence otherwise: Scenarios, Visual Knowledge and new Mechanisms of Surveillance". Until 21st February you can upload papers to the diferent tracks, so if you are interested in bios, threats and surveillance, you can call for our track here with this steps:

• Go to tracks,
• Select the track you would like to submit a paper to and
• Press ‘propose paper’ at the bottom of your chosen track.

As you will se, submission has diferent parts (title, authors, short abstract and big abstract). Here we offer two examples about the short abstract and, and so, you can also see what we will send to the track and what is about our track:

PAPER ONE:

-Paper title: Speed operators in the new epidemics.

-Short Abstract: From the 21^st Century’s arrival, epidemics or virus, and, in general, the bios, has suffered several and important shifts. One of this changes is related with the speed that events happen. We will offer some ideas about the notion of “speed operators” in order to shape this reality.

PAPER TWO:

-Paper title: Epidemics and Images within the new state of exception intelligence 

-Short Abstract: Images have accompanied the social from its origin. In a first moment, images had their own ontological status, but some decades after, text and discourse gaining ground to images and theses last ones was subordinated as a mere illustration or representation of what text said. We want to recover the original sense about images, starting from the latest theories about Visual Culture or Visual Anthropology. 

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