Speculative Virontology: Malevolent Infrastructure against the Design of Infrastructural Intimacy in Pulse
Speculative Virontology: Malevolent Infrastructure against the Design of Infrastructural Intimacy in Pulse

Summary/Abstract: In this article, speculative virontology refers to a form of thought that revalues thebiontological framework present in current queer theoretical and new materialist thinking.Using an archive of horror films, Paul Golding’s Pulse from 1988 in particular, this articlepoints toward malevolent infrastructure – the conceptualization of matter that is performativelyterrorizing the closedness of mutually constitutive design of infrastructural intimacyand the immanence of biontology. Both intimacy and immanence depend on production ofspace and time which exclude forms of life that are not white middle-class cisnormative (re)productive heterosexuality and thus deemed not properly alive and outside of Being. The figureof the Virus upsets these processes of exclusion and divisions, and reorders conceptualityaway from immanence and biontology toward what is non-biontological, toward that which isneither Life nor Nonlife.

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