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The Virus Paradigm

A Planetary Ecology of the Mind
Buch | Softcover
75 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-96581-1 (ISBN)
21,20 inkl. MwSt
In recent years, the word 'virus' has lost its biological perimeter of reference to acquire a much broader – could say 'paradigmatic' – meaning. This Element aims to shed light on how virality has become the most powerful metaphor available to describe very different phenomena.
In recent years, the word 'virus' has lost its biological perimeter of reference to acquire a much broader – could say 'paradigmatic' – meaning. The term 'virus' can be seen as a key word or an explanatory model also for processes that go beyond the infectious sphere. Every event appears to have a viral character: from the way information is transmitted to the processes of cultural globalization, from the impact of human beings on the planet to the subversion of ecosystems, from pandemic risks to the demographic increase on the planet. This seems to be indeed the Age of the Virus. Its model can be applied to most of the phenomena that characterize the twenty-first. Its profile – its looming and invisible nature, its ability to use other people's resources to spread and to transform into a dangerous doppelganger – is perfect to represent the fears of the contemporary age.

1. A Virus for the Planet; 2. Pandemics and Individual Freedoms; 3. The Technological Virus; 4. The Return of the Body; 5. The Posthumanist View.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Elements in Environmental Humanities
Übersetzer Sarah De Sanctis
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 230 mm
Gewicht 120 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-108-96581-4 / 1108965814
ISBN-13 978-1-108-96581-1 / 9781108965811
Zustand Neuware
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