This article demonstrates and critiques the coronavirus’ cultural agency, which thanks to this human assistance, worked in synergy with its biological form. Looking at the virus as an ‘infodemic’ and a set of transnational political events, it argues that a conjuncturally specific form of toxic, especially white, masculinity is key to understanding the virus’s entwinement with contemporary post-truth or ‘emo-truth’ politics. A conjunctural focus reveals why a certain form of aggressive (masculine and white), ruggedly individualist truth-telling, its false statements, its historical causes, and mortal effects could become so spectacularly impactful at a particular point in time, in particular places.

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有毒的白人男子气概，真相政治和COVID-19信息大流行

本文展示并批判了冠状病毒的文化机构，该机构在人类的协助下与其生物学形式协同作用。该病毒将病毒视为“信息流行病”和一系列跨国政治事件，认为结合使用特定形式的有毒的男性气质，尤其是白人男性气质是理解病毒与现代后真理或“真理”政治交织的关键。 。共同的焦点揭示了为什么某种形式的侵略性（男性和白人），粗暴的个人主义真理，其虚假陈述，其历史起因以及致命的影响在特定的时间点，特定地点会变得如此惊人。