[SydPhil] REMINDER: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 19 May 2025 at 5.30pm (POSTPONED)

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School of History and Philosophy of Science
RESEARCH SEMINAR
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Making a Fact Perform: the U=U campaign

Kane Race (Gender & Cultural Studies, University of Sydney)

Dates: Monday, 19/05/2025
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F09.331. Madsen Building. Madsen Seminar Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required

Abstract: Over the last two decades the antiretroviral treatments first used to treat HIV disease have been investigated and strategically exploited for preventative as well as clinical purposes. Treatment as Prevention names the bold new paradigm that has transformed the governmentality of HIV/AIDS on a global scale. In 2016, inspired by the triumphalist mood of this new paradigm, HIV activists from the Global North coined the acronym U=U (‘Undetectable equals Untransmittable’), believing the social and sexual status of people with HIV would be redeemed once the possibility of using antiretroviral treatments to maintain an undetectable viral load and prevent onward transmission was more widely known. In a remarkable feat of biomedical ‘value optimization’,  they sloganized U=U as a ‘life-changing, stigma-busting, transmission-stopping fact,’ investing antiretroviral treatments with a slew of new social, sexual, political and affective functions. Rabeharisoa and colleagues proposed the notion of ‘evidence-based activism’ to capture what they see as a definitive shift in the work of patient and health activists that entails a concerted focus on ‘knowledge production and knowledge mobilisation in the governance of health issues’ (2014). While certain aspects of the U=U campaign can be understood through the framework of evidence-based activism, U=U extends and transforms this frame, representing a novel mode of patient-led, global health activism that leverages the performative force of a biomedical claim.

Bio: Kane Race (BA (Hons.), LLB, PhD, FAHA) is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. He approaches drugs — and the transformations drugs are taken to induce — as significant elements in the crafting of effective history. He has a particular interest in drug practices that have emerged in response to HIV/AIDS, from the repurposing of antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV transmission, to subcultural uses of stimulants to re-create certain sexual sociabilities. Among his books are Pleasure Consuming Medicine: the queer politics of drugs (Duke University Press, 2009),The Gay Science: intimate experiments with HIV (Routledge, 2018), and Plastic Water: the social and material life of bottled water (with Gay Hawkins and Emily Potter, MIT Press, 2015).  He is currently working on a book manuscript, Undetectable: the molecularization of HIV stigma, under contract with Duke University Press.

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