Governing the manifold subject : a praxiography of Swedish HIV treatment

Sammanfattning: This thesis investigates a multiplicity of ways in which the subject of Swedish HIV treatment is enacted. Drawing on my own experiences of living with HIV in Sweden, the thesis articulates a concern with reflexive, performative, and normative dimensions of contemporary governing assemblages, research practices, and medical interventions. In other words, the thesis investigates the situated effects of governing the subject of Swedish HIV treatment by sketching out an empirical description of what I call the manifold subject. Investigating the various ‘goods’ that are entangled with this manifold subject, the thesis aims to constructively interfere with contemporary HIV governance by highlighting the manifold ways in which subjects are enacted in practices of HIV biopolitics. Contrary to discourses that attribute a shared responsibility for HIV/AIDS in the past and those that call for individual accountability in the future, I argue for the cultivation of better ways to understand and handle the multiple constitution of accountability in the present. Following the subject of HIV technoscience through legal, diagnostic, surveillance, and treatment practices, this praxiography analyses the motives, materials, and methods involved in slowing down the fast-track assemblage.