Viral modernity? Epidemics, infodemics, and the ‘bioinformational’ paradigm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8858910 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael A Peters (0000-0002-1482-2975, Beijing Normal University, corresponding author), Petar Jandrić (0000-0002-6464-4142, Tehničko Veleučilište u Zagrebu), Peter Mclaren (0000-0001-5510-9896, Chapman University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 675-697 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131857.2020.1744226 |
| OpenAlex | W3014044611 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 31 |
Viral modernity is a concept based upon the nature of viruses, the ancient and critical role they play in evolution and culture, and the basic application to understanding the role of information and forms of bioinformation in the social world. The concept draws a close association between viral biology on the one hand, and information science on the other – it is an illustration and prime example of bioinformationalism that brings together two of the most powerful forces that now drive cultural evolution. The concept of viral modernity applies to viral technologies, codes and ecosystems in information, publishing, education and emerging knowledge (journal) systems. This paper traces the relationship between epidemics, quarantine, and public health management and outlines elements of viral-digital philosophy (VDP) based on the fusion of living and technological systems. We discuss Covid-19 as a ‘bioinformationalist’ response that represents historically unprecedented level of sharing information from the sequencing of the genome to testing for a vaccination. Finally, we look at the US response to Covid-19 through the lens of infodemics and post-truth. The paper is followed by three open reviews, which further refine its conclusions as they relate to (educational) philosophy and the notion of the virus as pharmakon
Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Modernity · Social science · Sociology · Digital Education and Society · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Philosophy · Zoonotic diseases and public health
Disruptive Media Event in a Divided Society
The fiqh of disaster
Conferencias de prensa y Covid-19
Philosophy and Pandemic in the Postdigital Era
Biology, Information, Society
On the Hyping of Scholarly Research (with a Shout-Out to ChatGPT)
Postdigital Brave New World and Its Educational Implications
Covid-19
The Hyper-Truth War
Religious Nationalism and the Coronavirus Pandemic
The Postdigital-Biodigital Revolution
Collective Writing
Postdigital Dupery and Its Epistemic Vices
Biodigital Philosophy, Technological Convergence, and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies
The Day After Covid-19
Networked Learning in 2021
Revisiting the Concept of the Edited Collection
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—The New Normal
Postdigital Warfare
Postdigital Research in the Time of Covid-19
Futures Studies, Mobilities, and the Postdigital Condition
A Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Article
Towards a Postdigital Social Contract for Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The Covid-19 World
In Pursuit of an ‘Ethos of Community’
Risk Management as an Ontological Characteristic of the Modern University
Epistemic preparedness
From slogans to frameworks
The postdigital turn
Postdigital education in a biotech future
Beyond Doubt and Uncertainty
Infodemics in Mexico
A pandemic of desire
Towards a bioinformational understanding of AI
The Philosophy of Upbringing Healthy and Well-bred Generation of Kazakh Nationality
Platformized Prophecies of the End
The Coloniality of Power in Immunology
Exploring the philosophy and practice of collective writing
Postdigital-biodigital
Philosophy of education in a new key
Public intellectuals in the age of viral modernity
Post-truth, education and dissent
Surreal economics, fiscal stimulus, and the financialization of public health
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
Postdigital Ecopedagogies
From learning loss to learning opportunity
The Fearful Ethical Subject
Infodemia global. Desórdenes informativos, narrativas fake y fact-checking en la crisis de la Covid-19
A viral theory of post-truth
Learning in the Age of Digital Reason
Social Exclusion/Inclusion
Viral Modernism
Dissemination
Post-Truth, Fake News
Plague, Panopticon, Police
The Digital, Education, and Cosmopolitanism
How to Begin from the Beginning
Peer production and collective intelligence as the basis for the public digital university
Knowledge socialism
Towards a philosophy of academic publishing
Heralding ideas of well-being
Postdigital science and education
Autonomy and the Intrusion of Gaia
Seeing like a system
| Unique citing works | 49 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 48 |