Remediating the Infected Body
Writing the Viral Self in Melinda Rackham's carrier
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3805780 |
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| Authors | Tully Barnett (0000-0003-0269-5814, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-64 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2012.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W2147604988 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Melinda Rackham's web-based multimedia installation carrier invites its audience to consider the intersections of virus and human, through an investigation of the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and its impact upon conceptions of the self in the posthuman digital era. Rackham uses her experience with HCV to posit the infected as more-than-human, and in doing so she prompts new ways of thinking about the personal story in a hypertextual framework
Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Medicine · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction · Virology
| Highly cited | No |
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