Acknowledgments Introducing a Spiraling World Controlling Ourselves Accelerating History Beyond Fallacies and Illusions The Relentless Calls of the Sirens A very important note on language 1: Viral Principles On the Necessity of Speaking Virus The Grammar of Virus Viral Life Cycles Language is a Virus From Outside Space 2: Viral Vocabulary 'Ronaverse Slang Technical Dictionary Rhetorical Variants Hosts, Vectors, Catalysts and Controls 3: Viral Ideas Conspiracies: Burning Books, Bodies, Minds, 5G Towers, Fevers Science and COVID-19 Spreading Vaccines Dangerous Cultural Contagions 4: Culturing Cultures Viral Evolution and Civilization Plagues in History Fashions and Fads, Status and Solidarity Violence Begets Violence 5: Political Contagions The Rise of Algorithmic Intelligence The Politics of Social Media QAnon--The Gamification of Alienation Why Black Lives Matter, Matters 6: Mutational Economies Sacred Hungers Surveillance Capitalism Going Full Circle Spreading Innovations and Digital Proliferations 7: Speaking Virus--Cyberpunk Style The Dialect of Cyberpunk The Panoptic Present Veillance and Viruses The Affordances of Our Cyberpunk World 8: Viral Futures--New Abnormals No Normal Weird Lessons Predictions and Possibilities Living in Pompeii Cited Sources Illustrations, Figures, and Tables Index.