Contemporary images of epidemic turmoil are haunted by pestiferous times. What we see is less the reminiscence of iconographic motifs than the survival of a disturbance in representation that we propose to call here the pharmakon of the plague. From Antonello de Messina's Saint Sebastian to Titian's Supplication of Marsyas , what we see is not just the haunting of an "immune community" (in Roberto Esposito's sense), but the decomposition of resemblance.
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