ABSTRACT

This essay explores how public reception of, and individual resistance to, public health mandates have reinforced agentic notions of bodily management in the COVID-19 era. Our collective approach to the pandemic continues to secure prevalent understandings of human agency over disease and illness by reifying the concept of personal choice. Notions of risk and shame shape these performances but do little to dislodge cultural frames that reify notions of individualism and the entrepreneurial subject. The wide circulation of viral videos highlighting the defiance of mask mandates is one site where choice and personal autonomy animate these debates. These confrontational acts are not easily segmented from the other cultural apparatuses where the privatization of risk is marshalled for political ends.

摘要

本文探讨了在COVID-19时代公众对公共卫生指令的接受和个人对公共卫生指令的抵制如何增强了身体管理的代理概念。我们对大流行病采取的集体方法通过调整个人选择的概念，继续确保人们对疾病和疾病的人类行为具有普遍的了解。冒险和耻辱的观念塑造了这些表现，但并没有消除文化框架，这些文化框架体现了个人主义和企业家主体的观念。病毒视频的广泛传播突显了对口罩授权的蔑视，这是一个选择和个人自治为这些辩论提供动画的场所。这些对抗行为很难与其他文化机构区分开来，在其他文化机构中，出于政治目的将风险私有化编组起来。