Kulturvirologie

Viruses, which in contrast to bacteria, were first studied in depth in the late 92 s, as an obligatory parasite of foreign cells, have to be reprogrammed in such a way that a mass reproduction of them takes place in the host body itself. All the important discourses of the twentieth century come together in the " principle of viruses." Virality, hence the " going viral" of information in mass culture, gives rise to something that attests to a new, rapidly accelerating communicative phenomenon of the twenty-first century as a result of digital reproduction technology. The CULTURAL VIROLOGY proposed here provides a wide-ranging overview of viruses as a figure of thought for interaction, transmission, interdisciplinarity, connectivity, and interdependence in the twentieth and twenty-first century.