Andrew Lakoff
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3592236 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrew Lakoff |
| PRENOMES | Andrew |
| SOBRENOME | Lakoff |
| ASSINATURA | LAKOFF A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 807 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Government of Emergency
Acting counter to our time
This essay poses the question of the timeliness of anthropological knowledge. Paul Rabinow’s writings suggest that anthropological research has a particular relationship to the demands of the present day. The role of the anthropologist is neither that of the technical expert who can provide an instrumental solution to a given problem, nor that of an authoritative commentator who delivers a rapid assessment of the significance of an unfolding even…
Making things fungible
This essay draws on Aihwa Ong's conception of "fungible life," applying it to the practice of stockpiling essential goods. It argues that stockpiling is not just a matter of gathering and storing troves of supplies, but is linked to a broader style of reasoning about collective life in terms of its vulnerability to disruptive shock, and the need to ensure the resilience of vital systems
Unprepared
Recent years have witnessed an upsurge in global health emergencies—from SARS to pandemic influenza to Ebola to Zika. Each of these occurrences has sparked calls for improved health preparedness. In Unprepared, Andrew Lakoff follows the history of health preparedness from its beginnings in 1950s Cold War civil defense to the early twenty-first century, when international health authorities carved out a global space for governing potential outbrea…
A fragile assemblage
This paper examines the recent public controversy sparked by the laboratory creation of a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza transmissible among mammals. The contours of the controversy can be understood by tracking the assemblage of actors, institutions and devices gathered together in response to the governmental problem of how to manage emerging diseases. The grouping is tenuously held together by a shared commitment to the project of…
The Indicator Species
This essay tracks the two-decade-long struggle to protect the delta smelt and other native fish populations in California. Through the case of the smelt, it asks how the goal of species preservation is integrated into contemporary governmental practice. What values are at play in efforts to sustain the existence of nonhuman life in a setting of intense competition over a diminishing and essential resource? What forms of knowledge are developed to…
Vaccine Politics and the Management of Public Reason
This essay situates the current discussion of vaccination politics within a broader trajectory of reflection on risk, rationality, and reflexive modernization. It argues that contemporary vaccine resistance is indicative less of antiscientific or antigovernmental sentiments than of diffuse concerns about the toxic side effects of modern life alongside an increasing demand to be an expert on one's own body
Vital Systems Security
This article describes the historical emergence of vital systems security, analyzing it as a significant mutation in biopolitical modernity. The story begins in the early 20th century, when planners and policy-makers recognized the increasing dependence of collective life on interlinked systems such as transportation, electricity, and water. Over the following decades, new security mechanisms were invented to mitigate the vulnerability of these v…
Real-time biopolitics
This paper analyses the mechanisms through which experts in the field of global health work to manage the future well-being of populations. It develops a contrast between two ways of approaching disease threats: actuarial and sentinel devices. If actuarial devices seek to map disease over time and across populations in order to gauge and mitigate risk, sentinel devices treat unprecedented diseases that cannot be mapped over time, but can only be …
Editors' Letter
This issue of Public Culture focuses on the problem of translation, albeit not the conventional variety. The essays we feature here address the translation of numbers into meaning, of theories and concepts developed in particular sites (from nations to disciplines) into ways of thinking and doing research in others, of scientific facts into clinical applications, of intellectual innovations into commercial properties. The interviews, with James S…
Autism and its milieu
The Risks of Preparedness
This essay analyzes the evolving controversy over the recent experimental mutation of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) to make it more easily transmissible among mammals. While the controversy has been cast as a debate between bioscience and biosecurity, or between openness and secrecy, it is better understood in terms of the fracture of a fragile alliance among virologists, public health experts, and biosecurity officials around the problem of pa…
Ian Hacking
Oration| January 01 2012 Ian Hacking Andrew Lakoff Andrew Lakoff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 217–232. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443610 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Lakoff; Ian Hacking. Public Culture 1 January 2012; 24 (1 (66)): 217–232. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443610 Download citation…
Two Regimes of Global Health
Lakoff distinguishes between and describes two contemporary regimes for envisioning and intervening in the field of global health: global health security and humanitarian biomedicine.
Of risk and pork
Biosecurity Interventions
In recent years, new disease threats such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis have garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals for new approaches to "securing health" against these threats have come not only from public health and medicine but also from such fields as emergency management, national security, and global humanitarianism. This volume provides a map of …
Global Assemblages
Article Retiré
Cet article, qui a comme objet d'étude la biosécurité, représente un essai d'anthropologie du contemporain. Depuis la fin de la guerre froide, la préparation pour parer à une éventuelle menace bio-terroriste est devenue un élément important du dispositif de sécurité des Etats-Unis. Les auteurs considèrent que cette situation n'est pas seulement une donnée, mais aussi un problème. Ils se proposent d'utiliser les outils analytiques de l'observation…
Distributed Preparedness
This paper examines the genealogy of domestic security in the United States through an analysis of post-World War II civil defense. Specifically, we describe the development of an organizational framework and set of techniques for approaching security threats that we call 'distributed preparedness'. Distributed preparedness was initially articulated in civil defense programs in the early stages of the Cold War, when US government planners began t…
Pour qu'un désastre ne tourne pas à la catastrophe
Aux États-Unis, la doctrine de la sécurité civile repose sur la notion de « préparation ». Mais les mêmes programmes visent à protéger la « sécurité de la population » devant des dangers civils, aussi bien qu'à assurer la « sécurité de l'État-nation », dans le cadre de la stratégie militaire. N'y a-t-il pas des contradictions dans ce double usage
The Generic Biothreat, Or, How We Became Unprepared
This essay concerns the current intersection of national security and public health in the United States. It argues that over the course of the past three decades, a new way of thinking about and acting on the threat of infectious disease has coalesced: for public health and national security officials, the problem of infectious disease is no longer only one of prevention, but also-and perhaps even more-one of preparedness. The essay describes th…
On Regimes of Living
This chapter contains section titled: Technological Reason and Biopolitics as ‘Ethical’ Problems Regimes of Living in Operation Notes
The Private Life of Numbers
This chapter contains section titled: Neoliberal Contraband High Contact Notes
The Right Patients for the Drug
Anthropology and the
Preparing for the Next Emergency
Research Article| May 01 2007 Preparing for the Next Emergency Andrew Lakoff Andrew Lakoff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 247-271. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-035 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Lakoff; Preparing for the Next Emergency. Public Culture 1 May 2007; 19 (2): 247-271. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215…
Vital Systems Security
This article describes the historical emergence of vital systems security, analyzing it as a significant mutation in biopolitical modernity. The story begins in the early 20th century, when planners and policy-makers recognized the increasing dependence of collective life on interlinked systems such as transportation, electricity, and water. Over the following decades, new security mechanisms were invented to mitigate the vulnerability of these v…
The Generic Biothreat, Or, How We Became Unprepared
This essay concerns the current intersection of national security and public health in the United States. It argues that over the course of the past three decades, a new way of thinking about and acting on the threat of infectious disease has coalesced: for public health and national security officials, the problem of infectious disease is no longer only one of prevention, but also-and perhaps even more-one of preparedness. The essay describes th…
Distributed Preparedness
This paper examines the genealogy of domestic security in the United States through an analysis of post-World War II civil defense. Specifically, we describe the development of an organizational framework and set of techniques for approaching security threats that we call 'distributed preparedness'. Distributed preparedness was initially articulated in civil defense programs in the early stages of the Cold War, when US government planners began t…
Biosecurity
Real-time biopolitics
This paper analyses the mechanisms through which experts in the field of global health work to manage the future well-being of populations. It develops a contrast between two ways of approaching disease threats: actuarial and sentinel devices. If actuarial devices seek to map disease over time and across populations in order to gauge and mitigate risk, sentinel devices treat unprecedented diseases that cannot be mapped over time, but can only be …
Ethics and the anthropology of modern reason
In recent years, anthropologists have shown increasing interest in scientific, technical and administrative systems and their political regulation. In what follows, we suggest that a major concern in much of this work is a common interest in how, in relationship to these technical and political developments, 'living' has been rendered problematic. In the first part of this article, we suggest that these strands of anthropological investigation ca…
The Anxieties of Globalization
This paper describes the role of market research firms in shaping the actions of key players in the pharmaceutical arena. It focuses on strategies for marketing novel antidepressants (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRIs) to doctors in Buenos Aires during the Argentine financial crisis of 2001, posing the question of whether increased antidepressant sales were due to the social situation or to promotional practices. This case demonstrat…
Diagnostic liquidity
The Indicator Species
This essay tracks the two-decade-long struggle to protect the delta smelt and other native fish populations in California. Through the case of the smelt, it asks how the goal of species preservation is integrated into contemporary governmental practice. What values are at play in efforts to sustain the existence of nonhuman life in a setting of intense competition over a diminishing and essential resource? What forms of knowledge are developed to…
A fragile assemblage
This paper examines the recent public controversy sparked by the laboratory creation of a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza transmissible among mammals. The contours of the controversy can be understood by tracking the assemblage of actors, institutions and devices gathered together in response to the governmental problem of how to manage emerging diseases. The grouping is tenuously held together by a shared commitment to the project of…
Of risk and pork
Making things fungible
This essay draws on Aihwa Ong's conception of "fungible life," applying it to the practice of stockpiling essential goods. It argues that stockpiling is not just a matter of gathering and storing troves of supplies, but is linked to a broader style of reasoning about collective life in terms of its vulnerability to disruptive shock, and the need to ensure the resilience of vital systems
Freezing Time
The Simulation of Madness
Vaccine Politics and the Management of Public Reason
This essay situates the current discussion of vaccination politics within a broader trajectory of reflection on risk, rationality, and reflexive modernization. It argues that contemporary vaccine resistance is indicative less of antiscientific or antigovernmental sentiments than of diffuse concerns about the toxic side effects of modern life alongside an increasing demand to be an expert on one's own body
The Risks of Preparedness
This essay analyzes the evolving controversy over the recent experimental mutation of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) to make it more easily transmissible among mammals. While the controversy has been cast as a debate between bioscience and biosecurity, or between openness and secrecy, it is better understood in terms of the fracture of a fragile alliance among virologists, public health experts, and biosecurity officials around the problem of pa…
Ian Hacking
Oration| January 01 2012 Ian Hacking Andrew Lakoff Andrew Lakoff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 217–232. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443610 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Lakoff; Ian Hacking. Public Culture 1 January 2012; 24 (1 (66)): 217–232. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443610 Download citation…
Freezing Time
Adaptive will
The increasing prevalence of attention-deficit disorder among American school children was a source of significant controversy in the 1990s. This paper looks at the social and historical contexts in which ADD evolved in order to understand its emergence as a coherent and widespread entity. Changes in expert models of child behavior interacted with the formation of new identities around disability to shape a milieu in which the disorder could thri…
The Lacan Ward
The Anxieties of Globalization
This paper describes the role of market research firms in shaping the actions of key players in the pharmaceutical arena. It focuses on strategies for marketing novel antidepressants (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRIs) to doctors in Buenos Aires during the Argentine financial crisis of 2001, posing the question of whether increased antidepressant sales were due to the social situation or to promotional practices. This case demonstrat…
Ethics and the anthropology of modern reason
In recent years, anthropologists have shown increasing interest in scientific, technical and administrative systems and their political regulation. In what follows, we suggest that a major concern in much of this work is a common interest in how, in relationship to these technical and political developments, 'living' has been rendered problematic. In the first part of this article, we suggest that these strands of anthropological investigation ca…
Biosecurity
The Simulation of Madness
Diagnostic liquidity
Pharmaceutical Reason
Andrew Lakoff argues that a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about and acting upon mental disorder is coming to reshape not only the field of psychiatry, but also our very notions of self. Drawing from a comprehensive ethnography of psychiatric practice in Argentina (a country which boasts the most psychoanalysts per capita in the world) Lakoff looks at new ways of understanding and intervening in human behaviour. He charts the globalization …
Global Pharmaceuticals
On Regimes of Living
This chapter contains section titled: Technological Reason and Biopolitics as ‘Ethical’ Problems Regimes of Living in Operation Notes
The Private Life of Numbers
This chapter contains section titled: Neoliberal Contraband High Contact Notes
The Right Patients for the Drug
Preparing for the Next Emergency
Research Article| May 01 2007 Preparing for the Next Emergency Andrew Lakoff Andrew Lakoff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 247-271. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-035 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Lakoff; Preparing for the Next Emergency. Public Culture 1 May 2007; 19 (2): 247-271. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215…
Biosecurity Interventions
In recent years, new disease threats such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis have garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals for new approaches to "securing health" against these threats have come not only from public health and medicine but also from such fields as emergency management, national security, and global humanitarianism. This volume provides a map of …
Global Assemblages
Article Retiré
Cet article, qui a comme objet d'étude la biosécurité, représente un essai d'anthropologie du contemporain. Depuis la fin de la guerre froide, la préparation pour parer à une éventuelle menace bio-terroriste est devenue un élément important du dispositif de sécurité des Etats-Unis. Les auteurs considèrent que cette situation n'est pas seulement une donnée, mais aussi un problème. Ils se proposent d'utiliser les outils analytiques de l'observation…
Distributed Preparedness
This paper examines the genealogy of domestic security in the United States through an analysis of post-World War II civil defense. Specifically, we describe the development of an organizational framework and set of techniques for approaching security threats that we call 'distributed preparedness'. Distributed preparedness was initially articulated in civil defense programs in the early stages of the Cold War, when US government planners began t…
Pour qu'un désastre ne tourne pas à la catastrophe
Aux États-Unis, la doctrine de la sécurité civile repose sur la notion de « préparation ». Mais les mêmes programmes visent à protéger la « sécurité de la population » devant des dangers civils, aussi bien qu'à assurer la « sécurité de l'État-nation », dans le cadre de la stratégie militaire. N'y a-t-il pas des contradictions dans ce double usage
The Generic Biothreat, Or, How We Became Unprepared
This essay concerns the current intersection of national security and public health in the United States. It argues that over the course of the past three decades, a new way of thinking about and acting on the threat of infectious disease has coalesced: for public health and national security officials, the problem of infectious disease is no longer only one of prevention, but also-and perhaps even more-one of preparedness. The essay describes th…
Two Regimes of Global Health
Lakoff distinguishes between and describes two contemporary regimes for envisioning and intervening in the field of global health: global health security and humanitarian biomedicine.
Of risk and pork
Autism and its milieu
The Risks of Preparedness
This essay analyzes the evolving controversy over the recent experimental mutation of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) to make it more easily transmissible among mammals. While the controversy has been cast as a debate between bioscience and biosecurity, or between openness and secrecy, it is better understood in terms of the fracture of a fragile alliance among virologists, public health experts, and biosecurity officials around the problem of pa…
Ian Hacking
Oration| January 01 2012 Ian Hacking Andrew Lakoff Andrew Lakoff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 217–232. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443610 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Lakoff; Ian Hacking. Public Culture 1 January 2012; 24 (1 (66)): 217–232. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443610 Download citation…
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