Science as a virulent myth archive.

Abstract

Latour (1988) argued that the discovery of the microbe changed the way the social was made: a human could now control the microbe instead of being blindly attacked by it;animals, people and fields became living media of the microbe and treated as such;and the hygienist movement took over health state powers What subjectivities, nonhumans, social and political powers are being produced by this new virus? The World Health Organization produced a list of myths about the virus  ‘5G mobile networks DO NOT spread COVID‐19’;‘coronavirus CANNOT be transmitted through mosquito bites’ But this list of denials confirms the power of mythological links Mythologies are ways of dealing with events by producing new readings of something unexpected (Levi‐Strauss 1955) These myths present an assemblage of Science and Technology Studies concerns