ABOUT VIRUS
Breaking off from the mainstream, Linda Stupart’s ""Virus"" marked a watershed moment for speculative fiction linked to leftist politics, imagining a utopia of violent feminist revenge, communized cyberspace and cleansing body horror.
Stupart’s book makes an analogy between the redemptive, corrupting potentials of feminist rage and the magical-fantastical figure of the virus that crosses computer and biological forms using error. The book’s action takes place at the boundary-point between computers and bodies, as glitches that are erotic and violent.
Lara Alonso Corona, Hydra of the Future Revolution: The many avenues of recent radical science fiction [conference abstract], 'Historical Materialism', November, 2024
[...] a more engaging and turned-on version of the type of post-author writing presented by the likes of Kenneth Goldsmith; language is the virus, and, Stupart implies, how we talk about ourselves changes our future
Chris Fite-Wassilak , The Death of the Unreliable Narrator, 'Art Monthly' 397, June 2016
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nathan Allan Jones, Glitch Poetics,
Lara Alonso Corona, Hydra of the Future Revolution: The many avenues of recent radical science fiction [conference abstract], 'Historical Materialism', November, 2024
Chris Fite-Wassilak , The Death of the Unreliable Narrator, Art Monthly 397, June 2016
Phoebe Cripps, 2020, Virus as metaphor: art and illness, 'Sleek Magazine', 2 April, 2020.
Sara Forja, La Virus: Review, 2023, LA CENTRAL: ACADEMY
Pero La Virus no solo es un texto de denuncia, es también un testimonio de memoria y reconocimiento. Entre sus líneas identificamos la escritura al más puro estilo Kathy Acker, pero también aparece el fantasma de Ana Mendieta clamando justicia. De este modo, a pesar del estilo xenomorfo del texto, somos capaces de reconocer la brecha que se establece a través de la palabra. Al final, la lección de La Virus es que todo acto de restitución necesita de cierto ejercicio de extrañamiento, de que el grito de las extraviadas quizá al principio poco se comprende, pero cuanto más se lee, más se transforma el cuerpo y más empatiza con el testimonio que se ofrece.
Sara Forja, La Virus: Review, 2023, LA CENTRAL: ACADEMY