The Virus Paradigm : A Planetary Ecology of the Mind
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Elements in Environmental Humanities
ISBN-10
1108965814
ISBN-13
9781108965811
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 18th, 2021
Print length
75 Pages
Weight
128 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 23.00 x 1.00 cms
Product Classification:
HistorySociety & culture: generalMicrobiology (non-medical)
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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.
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