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Culture of Contagion

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made their way to America in 1909, “Little do they know we are bringing them the
plague.”
Jean Baudrillard claims that thought itself is “a sort of network of antibodies
and natural immune defences” against a broad spectrum of phenomena which ren
der us vulnerable to “the evil genie of otherness