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Programming the Vicious Circle: Austen, Deleuze and Viral Repetition
2017
Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
Viruses have taken command of cybernetic space. Today, in the age of uploaded exteriorized memory, sociability as such has become a function of algorithmic disincarnation. This fractality, we assert, is a fundamental and primordial condition, an aspect of dynamic (re)integration, a process of negative entropy whose temporality is of unhuman dimensions. One cannot really escape from viral repetition. In the example of the "Austen-virus," textualities return, reappropriated by malware and other
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