ABSTRACT

This essay provides a genealogy of the recent operations of ‘virus government’ in the United States which followed the early twenty-first-century governmental discourse about and technologization of Homeland Security and a War on Terror. Through the genealogy, the essay asks what has and has not changed during the last twenty years of governmental and biopolitical response to public safety and social security as a personal responsibility. To understand and rethink that history, the essay proposes the usefulness of considering the COVID mask as a technology of virus government and as a Liberal object.

中文翻译：

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病毒管理–二十世纪作为生物政治技术的“黄昏面具”的家谱

摘要

本文提供了有关“病毒政府”在美国最近运作的谱系资料，紧随其后的是二十一世纪早期政府关于国土安全和技术化以及反恐战争的论述。通过家谱，本文询问了在过去的二十年中，政府和生物政治对公共安全和社会保障的响应是个人的责任，哪些方面没有改变。为了理解和重新思考历史，本文提出了将COVID掩码视为病毒管理技术和自由对象的有用性。