Whether we like it or not, we are all hosts for elements that are alien to us at every level of existence. Moreover, there is always a risk that hosts would be harmed by those they host. This risk is ineliminable. Rather than conjure up the specters of sovereign nation-states and autonomous individuals, we need to learn to live in a world that is interconnected not only ethereally or ideally, through communication technologies, but also materially, via direct embodied contact. In short, we must learn to live in a reality that may, at any moment, go viral.
Michael Marder in The Coronavírus is us
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