Virality Vitality

Virality VitalityReveals the fragility of basic scientific concepts through the unstable relationship between viruses and life, calling for a deconstructive reading to grapple with their theoretical and political effects. Virality Vitality explores the history and present of the life sciences and virology, focusing on moments of disruption that reveal the instability of the most basic concepts guiding scientific knowledge and their practical or political consequences.

Winner of the 2021 Gregory Bateson Book Prize presented by the Society for Cultural Anthropology

Can we understand our bodies without understanding how they are part of a rhythmic flow with the rest of the planet

to reach the innermost self within his or her own being

he finds himself torn between a sense of devastation and a revelation that he has finally found a way out of his writing predicament

A wide-ranging consideration of the place of dreams and visions in Islamic societies from the pre-modern period to the present

who were born deaf and mute

At eighteen Robert Tagliaferro

the concept of multiracialism has been taken up by conservative politicians in ways that are often inimical to the interests of traditionally defined minorities

The chapter considers the safety of irradiated food

its transition into an economic framework

discussing the weak points of a financial system driven by volatile markets rather than by governments

This is the first in-depth account of the band Soft Cell