Chris Hables Gray is an academic in the Cultural Studies of Science and Technology. Chris is a well known authority on human-machine systems,especially cyborgs and is also known for his work on how digital technology shapes society. he has been a guest professor at University College Corkin Ireland, Jan Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, the University of Toronto in Canada, and has lectured in the Netherlands, the UK, and Spain.

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroducing a Spiraling WorldControlling OurselvesAccelerating HistoryBeyond Fallacies and IllusionsThe Relentless Calls of the SirensA very important note on language1: Viral PrinciplesOn the Necessity of Speaking VirusThe Grammar of VirusViral Life CyclesLanguage is a Virus From Outside Space2: Viral Vocabulary’Ronaverse SlangTechnical DictionaryRhetorical VariantsHosts, Vectors, Catalysts and Controls3: Viral IdeasConspiracies: Burning Books, Bodies, Minds, 5G Towers, FeversScience and COVID-19Spreading VaccinesDangerous Cultural Contagions4: Culturing CulturesViral Evolution and CivilizationPlagues in HistoryFashions and Fads, Status and SolidarityViolence Begets Violence5: Political ContagionsThe Rise of Algorithmic IntelligenceThe Politics of Social MediaQAnon—The Gamification of AlienationWhy Black Lives Matter, Matters6: Mutational EconomiesSacred HungersSurveillance CapitalismGoing Full CircleSpreading Innovations and Digital Proliferations7: Speaking Virus—Cyberpunk StyleThe Dialect of CyberpunkThe Panoptic PresentVeillance and VirusesThe Affordances of Our Cyberpunk World8: Viral Futures—New AbnormalsNo NormalWeird LessonsPredictions and PossibilitiesLiving in PompeiiCited SourcesIllustrations, Figures, and TablesIndex

Chris Hables Gray is an academic in the Cultural Studies of Science and Technology. Chris is a well known authority on human-machine systems,especially cyborgs and is also known for his work on how digital technology shapes society. he has been a guest professor at University College Corkin Ireland, Jan Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, the University of Toronto in Canada, and has lectured in the Netherlands, the UK, and Spain.

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroducing a Spiraling WorldControlling OurselvesAccelerating HistoryBeyond Fallacies and IllusionsThe Relentless Calls of the SirensA very important note on language1: Viral PrinciplesOn the Necessity of Speaking VirusThe Grammar of VirusViral Life CyclesLanguage is a Virus From Outside Space2: Viral Vocabulary’Ronaverse SlangTechnical DictionaryRhetorical VariantsHosts, Vectors, Catalysts and Controls3: Viral IdeasConspiracies: Burning Books, Bodies, Minds, 5G Towers, FeversScience and COVID-19Spreading VaccinesDangerous Cultural Contagions4: Culturing CulturesViral Evolution and CivilizationPlagues in HistoryFashions and Fads, Status and SolidarityViolence Begets Violence5: Political ContagionsThe Rise of Algorithmic IntelligenceThe Politics of Social MediaQAnon—The Gamification of AlienationWhy Black Lives Matter, Matters6: Mutational EconomiesSacred HungersSurveillance CapitalismGoing Full CircleSpreading Innovations and Digital Proliferations7: Speaking Virus—Cyberpunk StyleThe Dialect of CyberpunkThe Panoptic PresentVeillance and VirusesThe Affordances of Our Cyberpunk World8: Viral Futures—New AbnormalsNo NormalWeird LessonsPredictions and PossibilitiesLiving in PompeiiCited SourcesIllustrations, Figures, and TablesIndex

Chris Hables Gray is an academic in the Cultural Studies of Science and Technology. Chris is a well known authority on human-machine systems,especially cyborgs and is also known for his work on how digital technology shapes society. he has been a guest professor at University College Corkin Ireland, Jan Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, the University of Toronto in Canada, and has lectured in the Netherlands, the UK, and Spain.

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroducing a Spiraling WorldControlling OurselvesAccelerating HistoryBeyond Fallacies and IllusionsThe Relentless Calls of the SirensA very important note on language1: Viral PrinciplesOn the Necessity of Speaking VirusThe Grammar of VirusViral Life CyclesLanguage is a Virus From Outside Space2: Viral Vocabulary’Ronaverse SlangTechnical DictionaryRhetorical VariantsHosts, Vectors, Catalysts and Controls3: Viral IdeasConspiracies: Burning Books, Bodies, Minds, 5G Towers, FeversScience and COVID-19Spreading VaccinesDangerous Cultural Contagions4: Culturing CulturesViral Evolution and CivilizationPlagues in HistoryFashions and Fads, Status and SolidarityViolence Begets Violence5: Political ContagionsThe Rise of Algorithmic IntelligenceThe Politics of Social MediaQAnon—The Gamification of AlienationWhy Black Lives Matter, Matters6: Mutational EconomiesSacred HungersSurveillance CapitalismGoing Full CircleSpreading Innovations and Digital Proliferations7: Speaking Virus—Cyberpunk StyleThe Dialect of CyberpunkThe Panoptic PresentVeillance and VirusesThe Affordances of Our Cyberpunk World8: Viral Futures—New AbnormalsNo NormalWeird LessonsPredictions and PossibilitiesLiving in PompeiiCited SourcesIllustrations, Figures, and TablesIndex