Plant - Becoming Positive

Sadie Plant BECOMING POSITIVE The virus, neither alive nor dead, thrives in a border area where it even destroys the basic of binary code. At the complex, multicellular, organic life it approaches under the radar and by the protective shields of the system defense through slipping as sweetly disguised alien to. Not really life, but alive. Just now alive. Undead, low life, a living piece of code. * What makes a virus, wherever it may open a loophole and find a starting point? It starts to eat. And what does it with what it eats? It provides exact copies of itself forth that begin in turn to eat, to produce more copies that start eating again, and so on, up to the x‐th power, fear, hatred, until the host slowly but surely replaced by viral copies is a program of empty body, a giant tapeworm conjured words and images, which moves with always the same speed on a slow hydraulic backbone axis across the screen in your head, as the cylindrical thing in an abacus * [William S. Burroughs, Nova Express ]. The virus remained undetected until its operation eventually ran in the late 19th century to such an extent by the communications machinery that they were an integral part of the cultural codes. The earliest detectable viruses multiplied with the precision of the first blind written typists, spread with the new communication possibilities of the phone, traveling with the switching systems of electricity and duplicated with the calculators. Mid‐80s of the 19th century, when for the first time found that microbial structure all previous networks, and are they still so fine penetrated, were all these channels already connected. Serious research on the liquid * living * contagions, as they were then known, were begun, as the US military for the first time, observed the occurrence of what was to be known as the 1900 virus in humans. After watching the yellow fever virus patterns which were classified three hosts over much of the following century away to her, as it was thought at the time: animals, plants, and in turn, animals and plants as hosts requiring bacteria. The fact that they now had a name, seemed their rapid multiplication even promote yet. The viruses that occurred incessantly in new forms, mutated and disappeared, were unknown quantities, slippery character sets that attempted scientific codes and disciplines them to get on the track and to explore, presented formidable problems. Only suitable for parasitic lifestyle, developed and they multiplied only within their respective host and stubbornly refused to make himself known, and even if only for the purpose of analysis.