PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Einar Wigen
AU  - A Nalan Azak
AU  - Ingrid Eskild
AU  - Helge Jordeim
AU  - Anne Kveim Lie
AU  - Akif Ercihan Yerlioglu
AU  - Espen Ytreberg
TI  - Temporal technologies of epidemics
AID  - 10.1136/medhum-2021-012253
DP  - 2022 Jul 11
TA  - Medical Humanities
PG  - medhum-2021-012253
4099  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2022/07/11/medhum-2021-012253.short
4100  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2022/07/11/medhum-2021-012253.full
AB  - The COVID-19 pandemic has largely been made sense of as a crisis. However, using crisis as a temporal-analytical category arguably obscures the complexity of the different temporalities at work in the pandemic. In this article, we examine how the pandemic outbreak led to numerous acts of synchronisation and de-synchronisation—between humans and viruses, between social groups and even between historical ages. In order to make sense of the temporal consequences of an epidemic, we introduce the concept of ‘temporal technologies’, understood as a set of procedures that control, regulate, produce and assemble time in relational networks of both human and non-human actors. This article thus attempts to create a framework for understanding the epidemic experience in temporal terms by using ‘temporal technologies’ as an analytical tool.Data sharing not applicable as no datasets generated and/or analysed for this study. There is no data to share.