{"title":"HIV and the Somatechnics of Viral Networks, Temporalities and Politics","authors":"Desireé Ljungcrantz, M. Gustavson","doi":"10.3366/soma.2020.0311","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It is ironic, to say the least, writing up this special issue on HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and temporality in the very moment of the COVID-19 outbreak and the literal spray of SARS-CoV-2. Leaving aside the many differences between HIV and the novel coronavirus, it is striking how we (as in all living creatures) are somatically interconnected by our body fluids, regardless of which matter - sperm, lubricant, blood, milk or saliva droplets. We find ourselves, again, globally interconnected by the flight of a virus.","PeriodicalId":43420,"journal":{"name":"Somatechnics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Somatechnics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2020.0311","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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It is ironic, to say the least, writing up this special issue on HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and temporality in the very moment of the COVID-19 outbreak and the literal spray of SARS-CoV-2. Leaving aside the many differences between HIV and the novel coronavirus, it is striking how we (as in all living creatures) are somatically interconnected by our body fluids, regardless of which matter - sperm, lubricant, blood, milk or saliva droplets. We find ourselves, again, globally interconnected by the flight of a virus.