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Author:   Chris Hables Gray
Publisher:   Goldsmiths, University of London
Imprint:   Goldsmiths, University of London
Weight:   0.567kg
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9781915983374

ISBN 10:   1915983371
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   21 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introducing a Spiraling World Controlling Ourselves Accelerating History Beyond Fallacies and Illusions The Relentless Calls of the Sirens A very important note on language 1: Viral Principles On the Necessity of Speaking Virus The Grammar of Virus Viral Life Cycles Language is a Virus From Outside Space 2: Viral Vocabulary ’Ronaverse Slang Technical Dictionary Rhetorical Variants Hosts, Vectors, Catalysts and Controls 3: Viral Ideas Conspiracies: Burning Books, Bodies, Minds, 5G Towers, Fevers Science and COVID-19 Spreading Vaccines Dangerous Cultural Contagions 4: Culturing Cultures Viral Evolution and Civilization Plagues in History Fashions and Fads, Status and Solidarity Violence Begets Violence 5: Political Contagions The Rise of Algorithmic Intelligence The Politics of Social Media QAnon—The Gamification of Alienation Why Black Lives Matter, Matters 6: Mutational Economies Sacred Hungers Surveillance Capitalism Going Full Circle Spreading Innovations and Digital Proliferations 7: Speaking Virus—Cyberpunk Style The Dialect of Cyberpunk The Panoptic Present Veillance and Viruses The Affordances of Our Cyberpunk World 8: Viral Futures—New Abnormals No Normal Weird Lessons Predictions and Possibilities Living in Pompeii Cited Sources Illustrations, Figures, and Tables Index

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An academic in the Cultural Studies of Science and Technology Chris Hable Gray is a well known authority on human-machine systems, especially cyborgs (Cyborg Citizen, lead editor of The Cyborg Handbook and Modified- Living as a Cyborg). He is also known for his work on how digital technology shapes society, including AI and other computing approaches to war (Postmodern War; Peace, War and Computers). His work includes hundreds of articles-peer reviewed and otherwise-in a dozen disciplines and fields. He has been a guest professor at University College Cork in Ireland, Jan Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, the University of Toronto in Canada, and has lectured extensively in the Netherlands, the UK, and Spain.

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