Diagrams commissioned by Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson for their paper:
T. D. Sampson and J. Parikka. The Operational Loops of a Pandemic. Cultural Politics, 17(1):55–68, Mar. 2021. ISSN1743-2197. doi: 10.1215/17432197-8797529
Loop 1: Scalar relations of SARS-CoV-2
(Mattern 2020; Jaque and Munuera 2020)
Loop 2: 'Phase portrait diagram' Visualisation method from Dorling (2020) daily number of COVID-19 cases and rate of change in the UK. 22nd Jan. to 09th Sept. 2020. Data from disease.sh (2021)
Loop 3: Model operations in pandemic production
(Chun 2015; Dinno 2007)
unpublished
Loop 4: Propelling mechanism of the pandemic "wave" operational image (Helmreich and Jones 2020; Farocki 2004)
unpublished
References
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. 2015. “On Hypo-Real Models or Global Climate Change: A Challenge for the Humanities.” Critical Inquiry 41 (3): 675–703. https://doi.org/10.1086/680090.
Dinno, Alexis. 2007. “Loop Analysis of Causal Feedback in Epidemiology: An Illustration Relating to Urban Neighborhoods and Resident Depressive Experiences.” Social Science & Medicine 65 (10): 2043–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.06.018.
disease.sh. 2021. “Data from John Hopkins University (JHUCSSE).” Disease.sh - Open Disease Data. https://disease.sh/.
Farocki, Harun. 2004. “Phantom Images.” Public 0 (29). https://public.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/public/article/view/30354.
Helmreich, Stefan, and David S. Jones. 2020. “The Shape of Epidemics.” Boston Review, June. http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/david-s-jones-stefan-helmreich-shape-epidemics.
Jaque, Andrés, and Ivan Munuera. 2020. “The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19.” Dezeen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD6khyFbBcQ.
Mattern, Shannon. 2020. “The Scalar Logics of COVID.” Rosa Mercedes, no. 02 (April). https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2020/04/25/the-scalar-logics-of-covid-journal-of-visual-culture-hafi-7/.