People are right to be concerned about new viruses.
They are the first in a new-wave of post-structural viruses. The merest
exposure to them can fragment one’s entire work into a myriad of
inconclusive threads and disparate approaches. Whatever one’s
wordprocessor, it turns any narrative text with a clear linear argument
into an incomprehensible jumble of words, many not found in the Oxford
English Dictionary.
Only powerful computers can survive such ontological infestation, and
the most powerful may even have their performance enhanced. Lesser
models succumb entirely and their operating systems deconstruct
themselves - contesting the univocal legitimacy of the binary states zero
and unity.
Yours in jest (and as yet undisclosed),
Alasdair Crockett.
Prize Research Fellow,
Nuffield College,
Oxford.
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