“…When infectious disease was addressed as a matter of national security, scholars took issue with the ‘medicalisation of insecurity’ (Finnegan and Keränen 2011; Elbe 2010) and interrogated the newly constructed problem of ‘unpreparedness’ (Lakoff 2007; Lakoff 2008, 136). GHH critics made an interdiscipline of this tack, terming their scholarship concerning ‘biosecurity’ (Collier, Lakoff, and Rabinow 2004; Lakoff 2008) ‘biocriticism’ (Finnegan and Keränen 2011) and initiating a movement towards a ‘critical, self-reflexive knowledge of biosecurity’ (Lakoff 2008, 21). Critics united as ‘second-order’ analysts of biosecurity who could use their critical distance to ‘plan, interpret, decipher, decode, analyse, synthesise, diagnose, contest, approve, improve, convince, decry, denounce and raise holy hell’ (Rabinow 2015, 283).…”