C Caduff
Biographic Data
| ID | 51587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Caduff |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Caduff |
| SIGNATURE | CADUFF C |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4505-3408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Provincialising Global Oncology
Global Oncology is an important project and concept which has made significant strides in recent years
Crisis and Critique: On Preparedness, Authoritarianism and the Regulatory State
The Covid-19 pandemic has been overwhelming in many ways, but what are the structural conditions that can explain the dramatic impact of the global pandemic? How can we shift the horizon of the possible and contribute to another politics of life, one that is based on strong institutions and a vision of social justice? This article examines the role of preparedness, authoritarianism and the regulatory state. It suggests that it is important to mov…
Anthropologies of Cancer
Cancer is a relatively new subject for the discipline of anthropology, but scholarship on the topic has already yielded a distinct and important body of literature. In biomedical terms, cancer can be thought of as the wide range of conditions characterized by the uncontrolled (and ultimately pathological) proliferation of cells. It is a disease that is responsible for the deaths of millions of people worldwide each year. As such, it is the focus …
What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full Stop
This article examines the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It argues that we urgently need to look beyond the virus if we want to understand the real seriousness of what is happening today. How did we end up in a space of thinking, acting, and feeling that has normalized extremes and is based on the assumption that biological life is an absolute value separate from politics? The author suggests that today's fear is fueled by mathematical…
Cancer and the global South
Re-imagining global health through social medicine
The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend 'the social' in social medicine offer important insights to global health along five lines of critical analysis: (1) reconfigurations of the state and new forms of political activism, (2) philanthrocapitalism and the economisation of life, (3) The economy of attention, (4) anthropogenic climate c…
Hot Chocolate
Care has always been there, yet somehow it has remained invisible. This is the founding lament of the sociology of care. 1 Its mission as a scientific endeavor is to dedicate more attention to a critical infrastructure of social reproduction that needs to be rescued from the corrosive damage of systematic neglect. Care needs care is the mantra of a sociology of care that fashions itself as a progressive project of devotion, conversion, and protec…
Scientific Expertise
Anthropologists have always been interested in knowledge and knowledge practices, and Paul Radin's account, Primitive Man as Philosopher , published in 1927, represents just one among many other contributions. But scientific expertise as an ethnographic object in itself has only recently emerged as an important topic in the discipline of anthropology. What is scientific expertise? Who counts as an expert? And what is the place of expert knowledge…
After the next
The mass media fascination with mass death and mass disease has a long history. But what makes a disease communicable in our culture of media? In this think piece, I argue that the mass media has found in the idea of the next pandemic an ideal opportunity to corroborate its own discursive problematic
Targets in the Cloud: On Transparency and Other Shadows
Speed Crash Course
New Media, New Publics: An Introduction to Supplement 15
In this special issue, we examine how publics are brought into being through historically specific media practices. We treat the question of new media as an invitation to explore changing conditions of communication across a number of ethnographic locations. We argue that these changing conditions have challenged our capacity to understand the nature of publics. It is important to emphasize that none of the contributors perceives new media as a c…
Leiden: Ein Gespräch zur Moral Anthropology
Sick Weather Ahead: On Data-Mining, Crowd-Sourcing and White Noise
The main concern of this article is with the ways in which technologies of data-mining and crowd-sourcing have made it possible for citizens to contribute to the expansion of infectious disease surveillance as both a concrete practice and a compelling fantasy. But I am less interested in participation as such, and more concerned with the epistemological effects that this technological mediation might have for the possibility of epidemic events to…
On the Verge of Death: Visions of Biological Vulnerability
This article considers how anthropologists and other social scientists examine biosecurity as an object in the making. It suggests that scholars encountered this object in research projects concerned with questions of global health, capitalism, neoliberalism, humanitarianism, citizenship, science, medicine, technology, ecology, surveillance, and risk. This growing body of work explores emerging modes of government that are characteristic for the …
Pandemic Prophecy, or How to Have Faith in Reason
In scientific discourse, as well as in public debates, scientists are often presented as charismatic prophets with a message for the people. My aim, in this article, is to explore the place of prophecy in today's politics of pandemic preparedness in the United States. How is the category of the unknown invoked in scientifically inspired prophetic proclamations? At stake in such an inquiry are the ways in which a prophetic existence is capacitated…
Whose world? Which health? What security? The facts and fictions of global health security
The Semiotics of Security: Infectious Disease Research and the Biopolitics of Informational Bodies in the United States
In this article, I investigate the biopolitical economy of security as it is operating today in the United States in the context of infectious disease research. Drawing on my work with influenza researchers, I specifically show how experts have been concerned not only with the circulation of biological matter but also with the exchange of scientific information. I argue that it is a specific logic-the logic of iterability-that is at the heart of …
Anthropology's ethics: Moral positionalism, cultural relativism, and critical analysis
In a programmatic article, published in late 2008 in Anthropological Theory, the French anthropologist Didier Fassin explores the vexed question whether anthropology should be moral or not. Observing a general discomfort with the question of morality in the discipline of anthropology, Fassin argues that such a discomfort might actually serve a valuable heuristic function for the development of a moral anthropology in the near future. What Fassin …
Culture + rhetoric – Edited by Ivo Strecker & Stephen Tyler
Human technologies: From moral objects to ethical subjects
Public prophylaxis: Pandemic influenza, pharmaceutical prevention and participatory governance
Life - After Canguilhem
What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full Stop
This article examines the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It argues that we urgently need to look beyond the virus if we want to understand the real seriousness of what is happening today. How did we end up in a space of thinking, acting, and feeling that has normalized extremes and is based on the assumption that biological life is an absolute value separate from politics? The author suggests that today's fear is fueled by mathematical…
Pandemic Prophecy, or How to Have Faith in Reason
In scientific discourse, as well as in public debates, scientists are often presented as charismatic prophets with a message for the people. My aim, in this article, is to explore the place of prophecy in today's politics of pandemic preparedness in the United States. How is the category of the unknown invoked in scientifically inspired prophetic proclamations? At stake in such an inquiry are the ways in which a prophetic existence is capacitated…
On the Verge of Death: Visions of Biological Vulnerability
This article considers how anthropologists and other social scientists examine biosecurity as an object in the making. It suggests that scholars encountered this object in research projects concerned with questions of global health, capitalism, neoliberalism, humanitarianism, citizenship, science, medicine, technology, ecology, surveillance, and risk. This growing body of work explores emerging modes of government that are characteristic for the …
New Media, New Publics: An Introduction to Supplement 15
In this special issue, we examine how publics are brought into being through historically specific media practices. We treat the question of new media as an invitation to explore changing conditions of communication across a number of ethnographic locations. We argue that these changing conditions have challenged our capacity to understand the nature of publics. It is important to emphasize that none of the contributors perceives new media as a c…
The Semiotics of Security: Infectious Disease Research and the Biopolitics of Informational Bodies in the United States
In this article, I investigate the biopolitical economy of security as it is operating today in the United States in the context of infectious disease research. Drawing on my work with influenza researchers, I specifically show how experts have been concerned not only with the circulation of biological matter but also with the exchange of scientific information. I argue that it is a specific logic-the logic of iterability-that is at the heart of …
Sick Weather Ahead: On Data-Mining, Crowd-Sourcing and White Noise
The main concern of this article is with the ways in which technologies of data-mining and crowd-sourcing have made it possible for citizens to contribute to the expansion of infectious disease surveillance as both a concrete practice and a compelling fantasy. But I am less interested in participation as such, and more concerned with the epistemological effects that this technological mediation might have for the possibility of epidemic events to…
Anthropology's ethics: Moral positionalism, cultural relativism, and critical analysis
In a programmatic article, published in late 2008 in Anthropological Theory, the French anthropologist Didier Fassin explores the vexed question whether anthropology should be moral or not. Observing a general discomfort with the question of morality in the discipline of anthropology, Fassin argues that such a discomfort might actually serve a valuable heuristic function for the development of a moral anthropology in the near future. What Fassin …
Hot Chocolate
Care has always been there, yet somehow it has remained invisible. This is the founding lament of the sociology of care. 1 Its mission as a scientific endeavor is to dedicate more attention to a critical infrastructure of social reproduction that needs to be rescued from the corrosive damage of systematic neglect. Care needs care is the mantra of a sociology of care that fashions itself as a progressive project of devotion, conversion, and protec…
Life - After Canguilhem
Public prophylaxis: Pandemic influenza, pharmaceutical prevention and participatory governance
After the next
The mass media fascination with mass death and mass disease has a long history. But what makes a disease communicable in our culture of media? In this think piece, I argue that the mass media has found in the idea of the next pandemic an ideal opportunity to corroborate its own discursive problematic
Targets in the Cloud: On Transparency and Other Shadows
Speed Crash Course
Life - After Canguilhem
Culture + rhetoric – Edited by Ivo Strecker & Stephen Tyler
Human technologies: From moral objects to ethical subjects
Public prophylaxis: Pandemic influenza, pharmaceutical prevention and participatory governance
Anthropology's ethics: Moral positionalism, cultural relativism, and critical analysis
In a programmatic article, published in late 2008 in Anthropological Theory, the French anthropologist Didier Fassin explores the vexed question whether anthropology should be moral or not. Observing a general discomfort with the question of morality in the discipline of anthropology, Fassin argues that such a discomfort might actually serve a valuable heuristic function for the development of a moral anthropology in the near future. What Fassin …
The Semiotics of Security: Infectious Disease Research and the Biopolitics of Informational Bodies in the United States
In this article, I investigate the biopolitical economy of security as it is operating today in the United States in the context of infectious disease research. Drawing on my work with influenza researchers, I specifically show how experts have been concerned not only with the circulation of biological matter but also with the exchange of scientific information. I argue that it is a specific logic-the logic of iterability-that is at the heart of …
Whose world? Which health? What security? The facts and fictions of global health security
Sick Weather Ahead: On Data-Mining, Crowd-Sourcing and White Noise
The main concern of this article is with the ways in which technologies of data-mining and crowd-sourcing have made it possible for citizens to contribute to the expansion of infectious disease surveillance as both a concrete practice and a compelling fantasy. But I am less interested in participation as such, and more concerned with the epistemological effects that this technological mediation might have for the possibility of epidemic events to…
On the Verge of Death: Visions of Biological Vulnerability
This article considers how anthropologists and other social scientists examine biosecurity as an object in the making. It suggests that scholars encountered this object in research projects concerned with questions of global health, capitalism, neoliberalism, humanitarianism, citizenship, science, medicine, technology, ecology, surveillance, and risk. This growing body of work explores emerging modes of government that are characteristic for the …
Pandemic Prophecy, or How to Have Faith in Reason
In scientific discourse, as well as in public debates, scientists are often presented as charismatic prophets with a message for the people. My aim, in this article, is to explore the place of prophecy in today's politics of pandemic preparedness in the United States. How is the category of the unknown invoked in scientifically inspired prophetic proclamations? At stake in such an inquiry are the ways in which a prophetic existence is capacitated…
Leiden: Ein Gespräch zur Moral Anthropology
Targets in the Cloud: On Transparency and Other Shadows
Speed Crash Course
New Media, New Publics: An Introduction to Supplement 15
In this special issue, we examine how publics are brought into being through historically specific media practices. We treat the question of new media as an invitation to explore changing conditions of communication across a number of ethnographic locations. We argue that these changing conditions have challenged our capacity to understand the nature of publics. It is important to emphasize that none of the contributors perceives new media as a c…
Scientific Expertise
Anthropologists have always been interested in knowledge and knowledge practices, and Paul Radin's account, Primitive Man as Philosopher , published in 1927, represents just one among many other contributions. But scientific expertise as an ethnographic object in itself has only recently emerged as an important topic in the discipline of anthropology. What is scientific expertise? Who counts as an expert? And what is the place of expert knowledge…
After the next
The mass media fascination with mass death and mass disease has a long history. But what makes a disease communicable in our culture of media? In this think piece, I argue that the mass media has found in the idea of the next pandemic an ideal opportunity to corroborate its own discursive problematic
Cancer and the global South
Re-imagining global health through social medicine
The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend 'the social' in social medicine offer important insights to global health along five lines of critical analysis: (1) reconfigurations of the state and new forms of political activism, (2) philanthrocapitalism and the economisation of life, (3) The economy of attention, (4) anthropogenic climate c…
Hot Chocolate
Care has always been there, yet somehow it has remained invisible. This is the founding lament of the sociology of care. 1 Its mission as a scientific endeavor is to dedicate more attention to a critical infrastructure of social reproduction that needs to be rescued from the corrosive damage of systematic neglect. Care needs care is the mantra of a sociology of care that fashions itself as a progressive project of devotion, conversion, and protec…
Anthropologies of Cancer
Cancer is a relatively new subject for the discipline of anthropology, but scholarship on the topic has already yielded a distinct and important body of literature. In biomedical terms, cancer can be thought of as the wide range of conditions characterized by the uncontrolled (and ultimately pathological) proliferation of cells. It is a disease that is responsible for the deaths of millions of people worldwide each year. As such, it is the focus …
What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full Stop
This article examines the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It argues that we urgently need to look beyond the virus if we want to understand the real seriousness of what is happening today. How did we end up in a space of thinking, acting, and feeling that has normalized extremes and is based on the assumption that biological life is an absolute value separate from politics? The author suggests that today's fear is fueled by mathematical…
Crisis and Critique: On Preparedness, Authoritarianism and the Regulatory State
The Covid-19 pandemic has been overwhelming in many ways, but what are the structural conditions that can explain the dramatic impact of the global pandemic? How can we shift the horizon of the possible and contribute to another politics of life, one that is based on strong institutions and a vision of social justice? This article examines the role of preparedness, authoritarianism and the regulatory state. It suggests that it is important to mov…
Provincialising Global Oncology
Global Oncology is an important project and concept which has made significant strides in recent years
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