"…Basile's book deserves recognition as a major contribution to the contemporary literature of biodeconstruction. But it is also exemplary of the manner in which biodeconstruction can intervene in an original and important way within the philosophical or conceptual fundamentals of biological theory and the ethics and politics of biological practice." — The OLR Supplement"Virality Vitality constitutes an immensely important contribution to scholarship at the emerging intersections of deconstruction and the so-called life sciences. Virality Vitality, however, does not simply propose a viral supplement to already established work in 'bio-' or 'ecodeconstruction' but invites us to rethink the very conditions of possibility of these fields. Basile's work is equally important in redeploying and nuancing the ongoing conversations in the environmental posthumanities on nonhuman 'life' and material 'agency,' showing how deconstruction lets us reimagine otherwise any living-together on earth. The striking originality of thought found in these pages cements Basile as one of the most exciting new voices in deconstructive scholarship today." — Philippe Lynes, author of Futures of Life Death on Earth: Derrida's General Ecology
