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

In this article, speculative virontology refers to a form of thought that revalues the biontological framework present in current queer theoretical and new materialist thinking. Using an archive horror films, Paul Golding’s Pulse from 1988 particular, article points toward malevolent infrastructure – conceptualization matter is performatively terrorizing closedness mutually constitutive design infrastructural intimacy immanence biontology. Both depend on production space time which exclude forms life are not white middle-class cisnormative (re)productive heterosexuality thus deemed properly alive outside Being. The figure Virus upsets these processes exclusion divisions, reorders conceptuality away biontology what non-biontological, neither Life nor Nonlife.