Superspreader: Pop culture and media discourses in the face of the pandemic

This anthology traces an initial topography of pop culture knowledge about pandemics and their connections with the Covid-19 crisis in their media-discursive manifestations. Essays and academic discussions from the fields of cultural and historical studies, art, film and media studies, medical humanities, medical history and ethics, political and social sciences and public health approach the facts outlined from a theoretical, historical perspective as well as on a phenomenological level and thus offer a synchronous and diachronic view of epidemic and pandemic discourses, which shows that the epidemic has been present in all cultures for a long time and that, in the long term, the current corona pandemic is at best one chapter of many in the pop culture tradition of illness.