Thread by @NinaScience

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Quite a text.

"Necrosecurity. Accepting, fostering, even promoting death (for some) as means of securing life (for others).

Biosecurity: commitments & techniques to preempt/contain potential threats for ..life & health to flourish." >

degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

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/ "Necrosecurity discourse accompanied by immunosupremacy: claims that encouraged members of the public to perceive themselves & most others as physically normal, healthy, unlikely to be harmed by infection" >

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/ "These claims further legitimated by appeals to survival, statistical calculations of relative risk & life chances—ostensibly cited to inspire hope for individual outcomes—conceal zero-sum calculus & ill,susceptible individuals pitted against one another.">

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/ "The neologism ‘necrosecurity’ describes the cultural idea that mass death among less grievable subjects plays an essential role in maintaining social welfare and public order." >

/ "this perspective on the social value of death emerged in diverse contexts, particularly in claims that deaths were a necessary consequence of returning economies to normal." >

/ "Necrosecurity discourse encourages audiences to perceive coronavirus fatalities as neither preventable nor exceptional, and to perceive themselves as facing little risk of infection or death." >

/ "In contrast to the construct of biosecurity—the securing of collective life against risk—necrosecurity paradoxically imagines the deaths of vulnerable others as a means of managing shared existential dangers."

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degruyter.com/document/doi/1…