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Viruses Are More Like Cone Snails Than Hijackers
Hannah Landecker
Viruses are not like spaceships, and cells are not just like twentieth-century semitrailer trucks, armored vehicles, or passenger jets whose resources can be plundered and whose operators can be coerced into unwanted journeys. As with many apparently innocuous explanatory tropes, this figure of the viral hijacker perhaps hides as much as it reveals.
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 5, 2022
Subjects
Covid-19, Health & Disease, Biology