Although we are not certain that colonial boundaries were ever effectively able to deploy (perhaps for the metropolis, but never for the colonies), we still find value in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s claim that our current historical moment—an “age of globalization”—is also an “age of universal contagion.” We might slightly tailor their claim to specify perceived universal contagion, since perceptions motivate ideas about what human beings find threatening and introduce concerns about the end of the world as we know it, or what Robert Wuthnow calls, “the possibility of human extinction.” In the following, we offer that, first, perceptions about pandemics are as meaningful as the realities surrounding them, and second, since September 11, 2001, military efforts have been central to the management of pandemics or perceived universal contagions.

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9/11 事件后对传染病的恐惧和对灾难的军事化反应

尽管我们不确定殖民边界是否能够有效地部署（也许对于大都市，但从来没有对于殖民地），但我们仍然发现迈克尔哈特和安东尼奥内格里声称我们当前的历史时刻——一个“全球化时代”的价值——也是一个“普遍传染的时代”。我们可能会稍微调整他们的主张，以具体说明感知到的普遍传染，因为感知激发了关于人类认为具有威胁性的想法，并引发了对我们所知的世界末日的担忧，或者罗伯特·沃特诺 (Robert Wuthnow) 所说的“人类灭绝的可能性”。在下文中，我们提出，首先，对流行病的看法与其周围的现实一样有意义；其次，自 2001 年 9 月 11 日以来，军事努力一直是管理流行病或普遍传染病的核心。