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Imagining Extinction inside Viral Body without Organs
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2020-10-17 , DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n5.rioc1s25n5
Asijit Datta ,

Virus, in the form of a preassigned body without organs, predates the arrival of human species, and evolved on earth approximately three billion years ago, currently having an estimated variation of hundred million types Humans form an insignificant subsection of the 'virosphere' (Crawford) Equipped with the knowledge of all organisms, the SARS-CoV-2 (my focus in this paper) virus combines with angiotensinconverting enzyme 2 (ACE2) which in turn identifies the tissues vulnerable to the infection Once in the cell, it expropriates the cell's mechanism, makes numerous copies of itself and invades other cells Immune cells in the battle against the virus disrupt the flow of oxygen to all other parts of the body In most cases, there is inflammation of the alveolus, its broken walls lessen oxygen intake, and the patient ends up in the ventilator Eventually, the virus strikes all the organs with differing intensities- the lungs, the heart, the brain, the kidneys, the gut, the eyes The animal virus merging with its human counterpart mirrors "interkingdoms, unnatural participations"where "Nature operates- against itself"(Deleuze and Guattari) Virus is anti-genealogy Viruses bring the human and the non-human others together in a rhizomatic relation where genetic information and DNA are exchanged Viruses, as BwO, de-structure the essential frame and subjectivity of humans Both the human individual and viruses share a common plane where none possesses any essential reality and unfolds as an interactive space for multiple organic and inorganic exchanges The only "enemy"of the virus is the organism, and as indeterminate, pure lawlessness it attacks the fundamental organization- the cellular and the molecular Like the body without organs, viruses are anonymous/acephalous with its undying insistence to repeat/multiply and maximize connections Virus is pure desire oriented towards reducing the infected body to its elemental form (compost/ash and others) Each organ transmutes into a body reacting against other bodies and against the whole body containing all organs Claire Colebrook observes that a virus is so alive, "so lacking in boundaries and limits"that it does not qualify as a living being My paper seeks to investigate the role of the virus in reducing/expanding the human to such an extent that it becomes one with the ground, and returns to its originary existence I further propose that pandemics throughout history have initiated a re-imagination of human continuance;pandemics activate the human-toward-extinction by inducing the immortal virus through (consumed/to be consumed/ living) animals within the human © AesthetixMS 2020

中文翻译:

想象在没有器官的病毒体内灭绝

病毒以没有器官的预先指定的身体形式出现,早于人类物种的到来,并在大约 30 亿年前在地球上进化,目前估计有数亿种变异 人类构成了“病毒圈”的一个微不足道的子部分(克劳福德) 配备了所有生物体的知识,SARS-CoV-2(我在本文中的重点)病毒与血管紧张素转化酶 2 (ACE2) 结合,从而识别易受感染的组织一旦进入细胞,它就会占用细胞的机制,自我复制并侵入其他细胞免疫细胞在与病毒的战斗中破坏了氧气流向身体所有其他部位在大多数情况下,肺泡有炎症,其破裂的壁减少了氧气的摄入,病人最终进入呼吸机 最终,病毒以不同强度袭击所有器官——肺、心脏、大脑、肾脏、肠道、眼睛参与“在那里“自然运作——反对自己”(德勒兹和加塔利) 病毒是反谱系 病毒将人类和非人类其他人聚集在一起,形成一种根茎关系,其中遗传信息和 DNA 交换 病毒,作为 BwO,解构人类的本质框架和主体性 人类个体和病毒共享一个共同的平面,在这个平面上谁都不拥有任何本质现实,并作为多种有机和无机交换的互动空间展开 病毒唯一的“敌人”是有机体,并且是不确定的,纯粹的无法无天 它攻击基本组织 - 细胞和分子 就像没有器官的身体一样,病毒是匿名的/无名的,其不朽的坚持重复/繁殖和最大化连接病毒是纯粹的欲望,旨在将受感染的身体减少到其基本形式(堆肥/灰烬等)每个器官都转变为一个身体,与其他身体和包含所有器官的整个身体发生反应克莱尔科尔布鲁克观察到病毒是如此活跃,“如此缺乏边界和限制”,以至于它不具备生命的资格我的论文试图调查病毒在减少/扩大人类到与地面合二为一的程度中的作用,并回归其最初的存在 我进一步提出,历史上的流行病引发了对人类延续性的重新想象;流行病通过人类体内的(消费/被消费/活体)动物诱导不朽病毒,从而激活人类走向灭绝© AesthetixMS 2020
更新日期:2020-10-17
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