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... to biological viruses and resilient against digital ones (surviving well beyond any hacking incident, not to mention largely indifferent and barely unapologetic when individual accounts are hacked). But to go back to “virus is other people” in this viral culture: it is very often other people who come up...

...Chris Hables Gray Abstract To understand 2020’s pandemic is to see virus as a language we can use. By drawing on viral principles—viruses are infections through information, viruses can be understood only through percentages and exponentials, and viruses are zombies from outer space—the dynamics...

... ideas that I associate with living in a situation of the self and their entanglement with viruses causing respiratory tract infections, I trace their entwinement with our era through a brief study of the human coronavirus COVID-19, the world virus that can range from mild to lethal, and other key events...

... to the outbreak of the virus, Žižek suggests a turn away from Prometheanism and the logic of domination toward a new posthuman humanitarianism based on a recognition of human weakness, vulnerability, and fragility. In Žižek's view, this turn toward a new form of humility would emerge from the final disenchantment...

... that the world has entered a new stage organized around a new system of meaning, where uncertainty and distance rule and the other is a figure of contagion: we will call this new stage “viral culture.” Predictions abound about the huge cultural and political influence of new viruses, such as the coronavirus...

... been trying to tell us? For a start, everything is not under control. We are not masters of the virosphere, let alone the universe (or perhaps the other way around, considering there are more known viruses than observable stars). Like its zombie twin, the virus as an emergent disruptive agent exposed...

..., the World Health Organization, and other global entities, as he tried to deny the intensity of the crisis. Indeed, the virus was global in scope, illustrating the dark side of globalization: it could transmit deadly viruses as well as goods, democracy, and interpersonal communication (see Kellner 2002...

...Martin Parker Tocqueville's Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Thought , by Featherstone Mark , Abingdon : Routledge , 2008 , 332 pages, £65, HB ISBN 978-0-415-33961-2 © BERG 2009 PRINTED IN THE UK 2009 This is an ambitious book. Mark Featherstone has...

... of being the “index” case for the entire nation. They, like all victims of SARS, were innocent of intentions to spread the disease. This was consistent with the conventional general understanding that infection by a virus is involuntary on the part of its victims. It should be noted...

... cultures increasingly work to explicate and construct objective figures of (and in) air. A fundamental, yet invisible, “anthropopoietic” element, air resists the forms and figures we use to describe it. This is acutely demonstrated by airborne viruses like COVID-19 and the pandemics they create, where...

...Figure 1 Scalar relations produced by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Inspired by Jaque and Munuera's Transcalar Architecture of Covid-19 ( 2020 ). Image by David Benqué. ...

... the out-of-control spread of value, of meaning, of reality, of desire, and at the same time the catastrophe that interrupts that proliferation. The image of the virus appears with uncommon frequency, too, in the work of Maurice Dantec, and here again it is a reversible trope, since different viruses...

... the CIA, as HAL affectionately recalls, once taught him language and Logos when he was little. Of course, due to FCC restrictions Kubrick could not literally convert Burroughs's virus theory into a screenplay. Otherwise, we would have seen copulating apes onscreen. As a result, man in 2001: A Space...

... catastrophic: adolescents who took the pledge were much more likely to engage in unprotected oral and anal sex. They came to bracket this as not “real” sex. Thus they contracted STDs such as human papilloma virus, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis at the same rate as “nonpledgers.” The assumption...

.... The prompt implementation of circuit breakers, quarantine measures, and contact-tracing methods preempted the extensive spread of the virus in the local community. However, these containment measures only managed to contain the spread to foreign communities: containment strategies that kept the local...

... put into question. When an unknown high school student from a remote part of the world e-mails us with questions about a term paper, or when we receive a virus that destroys weeks of work, or when a long forgotten relative communicates with us out of the blue to renew the ties of kinship, or when...

... globalizing the planet in its own way. What the virus gets from banal droplets going from one mouth to another through coughing—the halting of the world economy—we can also begin to imagine via our little insignificant gestures put end to end, that is, the halting of the system of production. As we ask...

... (and ultimately uncontrollable) long-distance transport of germs and viruses, we begin to see how high the potential price of all this hypermobility may be. For countries such as the UK, which have happily allowed their manufacturing sectors to decay, on the previously unquestioned assumption that they can...

... and social and travel restrictions—thence presenting the palpable threat of a retreat or even closure of the senses of community and/or being-with-others-in-the-world—was not all gloom and doom in Nancy's point of view either. Instead, according to him in Un trop humain virus , it offered us the chance...