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cord-021116-rh0e4n2w	Lippens, Ronnie	Viral Contagion and Anti-Terrorism: Notes on Medical Emergency, Legality and Diplomacy	2004		.txt	text/plain	5100	259	56	This paper traces the main outlines of this emerging imaginary that has left notions of Empire as spheres of integrative production firmly behind, and is now geared towards imagining Empire as a complete, organic body of free-but-organic-and-therefore-orderly flows that however needs to be kept intact by means of epidemiological interventions aimed at excluding or neutralizing viral entities. Law and diplomacy were important technologies (however repressive at times) by which nation-states as well as Empires were held together, or indeed, by which they were produced or maintained, and by which they were made to be productive. There is no need for the productive negotiations of a 'cosmopolitan globalism' either (to use Mikkel Rasmussen's words 30 ), nor for reconciliatory efforts (one does not reconcile with viruses): the sanitary exclusion of viral contagion will suffice to keep the body of today's imperial new world order healthy.	./cache/cord-021116-rh0e4n2w.txt	./txt/cord-021116-rh0e4n2w.txt