e-flux Journal #130

<p>Viruses have lurked on the margins of cultural theory ever since Deleuze and Guattari suggested that “our viruses make us form a rhizome with other creatures.” According to Patricia Clough and Jasbir Puar, in the age of the internet, virality became “a form of communication and transmission across various domains: the biological, the cultural, the financial, the political, the linguistic, the technical, and computational.” In recent years, however, viral theory in the humanities and social sciences hasn’t kept pace with the scientific initiatives starting to peek into the virosphere’s vast unknown realms. This special issue of <em>e-flux journal</em> seeks to reckon with the multitude of invisible viral agents waiting to disrupt, detour, and reroute established modes of life…</p> <p><strong>Editorial: Welcome to the Virosphere</strong><br /> Eben Kirksey</p> <p><strong>Kinship Is Anarchy</strong><br /> Caitlin Berrigan</p> <p><strong>Viral Things: Twelve Keywords</strong><br /> Stephan Guttinger</p> <p><strong>Contingent Contagion</strong><br /> Sria Chatterjee</p> <p><strong>Death to Death / Life by Cuts</strong><br /> Mel Y. Chen</p> <p><strong>The Viral Real</strong><br /> Celia Lowe</p> <p><strong>Viral Junk</strong><br /> Rachel Vaughn</p> <p><strong>Barebacking in Restaurants and Other Fantasies of the Virosphere</strong><br /> Tim Dean</p> <p><strong>Viruses Are More Like Cone Snails Than Hijackers</strong><br /> Hannah Landecker</p> <p><strong>Getting Lucky in Thailand: Or How to Coexist with Coronaviruses in Multispecies Contact Zones</strong><br /> Eben Kirksey, Areeya Tivasuradej, Blake Palmer, Myint Than, Anne Atchara Changwong, Pietro Lo Casto, and Maya Kóvskaya</p>