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.
[...] 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