Risk and technological culture.Towards a sociology of virulence

Introduction: Technological culture and risk; Cultivating risks: paradoxes in the work of Ulrich Beck; Enrolling risks in technocultural practices: notes on Actor Network Theory; Assemblages and deviations: biophilosophical reflections on risk; A theoretical framework: risk as critical limit of technological culture; Cultivating waste: excessive risks in an economy of opportunities; Emergent pathogen virulence: understanding epidemics in apocalypse culture; Cyberrisks: telematic symbiosis and computer viruses; Race, riots and risk: media technologies and the engineering of moral panics; Conclusion: risk and apocalypse culture.