RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Temporal technologies of epidemics
JF Medical Humanities
JO J Med Humanit
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP e17
OP e17
DO 10.1136/medhum-2021-012253
VO 48
IS 4
A1 Wigen, Einar
A1 Azak, A Nalan
A1 Eskild, Ingrid
A1 Jordeim, Helge
A1 Lie, Anne Kveim
A1 Yerlioglu, Akif Ercihan
A1 Ytreberg, Espen
YR 2022
UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/48/4/e17.abstract
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.