Issue #115 Virality: Against a Standard Unit of Life

Virality: Against a Standard Unit of Life

Sonali Gupta and H. Bolin

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Issue #115
February 2021










Notes
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CDC, “Dengue Around the World,” cdc.gov .

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Chuang, “Social Contagion: Microbiological Class War in China,” chuangcn.org, 2020 .

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Following the far-right invasion of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, the term “insurrection” has been frequently deployed in mainstream discourse to refer to an increasingly violent arbitration over the empty terrain of state power. Our use of this term is fundamentally different. We invoke “insurrection” to refer to the collective invention of new terrain altogether, as demonstrated in anti-state uprisings in Hong Kong and all throughout the George Floyd Rebellion.

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Idris Robinson, “How It Might Should Be Done,” Ill Will Editions, July 20, 2020 .

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David Cayley, “Questions About the Current Pandemic From the Point of View of Ivan Illich,” davidcayley.com, April 8, 2020 .

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Shahana S. Malik et al., “Do Viruses Exchange Genes across Superkingdoms of Life?” Frontiers in Microbiology, October 21, 2017 .

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Nicholas Parrish and Keizo Tomonaga, “Endogenized Viral Sequences in Mammals,” Current Opinion in Microbiology, no. 31 (June 2016): 176–83.

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Edward B. Chuong, “The Placenta Goes Viral: Retroviruses Control Gene Expression in Pregnancy,” PLOS Biology 16, no. 10 (2018). Tara P. Hurst and Gkikas Magiorkinis, “Activation of the Innate Immune Response by Endogenous Retroviruses,” Journal of General Virology 96, no. 6 (2015): 1207–18.

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Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (Pluto Press, 2008), 3.

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Edward A Belongia et al., “Effectiveness of Inactivated Influenza Vaccines Varied Substantially with Antigenic Match from the 2004–2005 Season to the 2006–2007 Season,” Journal of Infectious Diseases 199, no. 2 (2009): 159–67.

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Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA), “NEW: LAPD sources sent me a letter Chief Moore sent out to officers Saturday night,” Twitter, November 9, 2020 .

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Known as the “OODA loop,” this decision-making paradigm was developed by the US military, but was most effectively put into practice by the rebels during the uprising.

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Abhyudai Singh and Leor S. Weinberger, “Stochastic Gene Expression as a Molecular Switch for Viral Latency,” Current Opinion in Microbiology 12, no. 4 (2009): 460–66.

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Fred Moten, “Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh),” South Atlantic Quarterly 112, no. 4 (2013): 737–80.

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