New Book: Digital Contagions. A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses

Jussi Parikka: Digital Contagions. A Media Archaeology of Computer
Viruses. (New York: Peter Lang, 2007).

Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical
analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus phenomenon. The
book maps the anomalies of network culture from the angles of security
concerns, the biopolitics of digital systems, and the aspirations for
artificial life in software. The genealogy of network culture is
approached from the standpoint of accidents that are endemic to the
digital media ecology. Viruses, worms, and other software objects are not,
then, seen merely from the perspective of anti-virus research or practical
security concerns, but as cultural and historical expressions that
traverse a non-linear field from fiction to technical media, from net art
to politics of software. Jussi Parikka mobilizes an extensive array of
source materials and intertwines them with an inventive new materialist
cultural analysis. Digital Contagions draws from the cultural theories of
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Friedrich Kittler, and
Paul Virilio, among others, and offers novel insights into historical
media analysis.

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