Virality vitality / Jonathan Basile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basile, Jonathan, author.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary French thought.

SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vitality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2025]

Summary:

Reveals 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Prodrome

Viral Traces

Digest

Introduction: Principles

Principles

Quasi-Species

Polis Virus

Proof of Principle

Viral Matter

Viral Rhetoric, Viral Truth

Part I: Of Virology

Chapter 1: Trees of Life

Analogy and Homology

Trees, Webs, Networks, Rhizomes

Loss as A-filiation: Gone and Epigone

Chapter 2: The EVEs of the Genome

Verticality: Virus as Gene

The Sex Virus: Bacterial Conjugation and Viral Horizontality

The Fundamental Inevitability of Parasites

Chapter 3: Viral Origins: Antagoniste des bacilles

The Word Virus

The d'Herelle Phenomenon

Discovery as Discission

Part II: Conceptions of Life

Chapter 4: Original Syn

Artificial Life and Synthetic Biology

Artificial Life as Mimesis

Synthetic Origins

Leduc and Loeb: Mechanistic Conceivers

"Minimal" as an Effect of Context

Parent, Patent: Life in Venter/Venter Capital

Computer Forbears

Chapter 5: "De-Extinction"

The Specious Concept

Proxies: Mammoth, Mammary, Mammal, Mama

Omnimpotence

Cauda

Parasite, Parricide: Family Scenes

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798855801866

OCLC:

1510663295