The SARS-CoV-2 virus, arriving within the human population via an immensely complex human-nonhuman agentic assemblage, has now produced its own public - a global population that coheres around a common perception of viral harm. If Rancià ¨re is correct in identifying a disruptive, democratizing force within such political ecologies, then this public's power is immense. Its voice will be of excluded humans and nonhumans alike, but we must be attuned to its massive sonority if we are to respond, or take part, intelligently. Most have not heard its pre-modern bass tones, unvoiced for a half-millennium, and I suspect we are ill-prepared for the profundity of its message.
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