Library / Rereadings 430 v. Chr. — The Plague of Athens Thucydides’ »The Peloponnesian War« revisited 1932–70 – Elias Canetti on Crowds and Contagion Excerpts from the Estate 1966 — »Where there is dirt, there is system« Mary Douglas’s »Purity and Danger. An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo« revisited 1975–1978 — Leprosy, Plague, and Smallpox. Three Paradigms of Modern Governmental Techniques Michel Foucault’s »Discipline and Punish« and the »Lectures on Governmentality« revisited 1981 — »The grounds we build upon and adapt our lives to will not be there forever« Paul Feyerabend’s »Irrationalität oder: Wer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann?« revisited 1984 — »There are more of us than we thought.« Bruno Latour’s »Pasteurization of France« revisited 2002 — »The Self-Destructive Dynamic of Immunitary Logic« Roberto Esposito’s »Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life« revisited 2004 — »Why this passion to lose our sense of proportion so quickly?« Philipp Sarasin’s »Fremdkörper/Infektionen: Anthrax als Medienvirus« revisited 2016 – »Each time a story helps me remember what I thought I knew, a muscle critical for caring about flourishing gets some aerobic exercise.« Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene revisited, part I 2016 – »Sympoiesis is a simple word; it means ›making-with‹. Nothing makes itself; nothing is really autopoietic or self-organizing.« Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene revisited, part II 2017 — Santé publique and Critique Didier Fassin’s »The Endurance of Critique« revisited
