The Virus Paradigm by Roberto Marchesini
In recent years, the word 'virus' has lost its biological perimeter of reference to acquire a much broader - could say 'paradigmatic' - meaning. This Element aims to shed light on how virality has become the most powerful metaphor available to describe very different phenomena.-
The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World
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Deep History, Climate Change, and the Evolution of Human Culture
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Wasteocene
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Blue Humanities
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Mar Menor
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Plantations
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Beyond the Anthropological Difference
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The Open Veins of Modernity
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Ruin Ecology
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Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories
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The Anatomy of Deep Time
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Ecosemiotic Landscape
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Italo Calvino's Animals
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The Earth Intoxicated on Imagination
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Anthroposcreens
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Descartes and the Non-Human
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Slime
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Automobility and the Anthropocene
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Growing Hope
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Ecosemiotics
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Nonhuman Subjects
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Climate Change Literacy
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Forces of Reproduction
Marchesini, Roberto: - Roberto Marchesini is Director of Siua (School of Human-Animal Interactions) and the Centro Studi Filosofia Postumanista (Center for the Study of Posthumanist Philosophy), both based in Bologna, Italy. He has been a prominent voice in the development of zooanthropology and posthumanism in Italy and teaches human-animal interactions as dialogues between minded interlocutors in courses around the country. He has written or co-written more than 30 books and 100 scientific essays. Amongst his main publications for the English-speaking audience: Over the Human. Post-humanism and the Concept of Animal Epiphany (Springer 2017), The Philosophical Ethology of Roberto Marchesini (Collected essays edited by. Jeffrey Bussolini, Brett Buchanan, & Matthew Chrulew, Routledge 2017). Roberto Marchesini runs an ethology blog on the major Italian Newspaper Il Corriere della Sera, and he is also member of the following scientific and editorial boards: Minding Animal International, The World Phenomenology Institute, and the Book Series Numanities (Springer).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108965811 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108965814 |
| Title | The Virus Paradigm |
| Author | Roberto Marchesini |
| Series | Elements In Environmental Humanities |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2021-02-18 |
| Number of pages | 75 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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