Dear all, for those of you who study hacker cultures - but also for those who are interested in computer viruses - but also for those who work on the history of mediactivism: I have just put online my author's cut version of "a 36-page essay to be published in the Dec 2010 issue of the journal Body & Society 16 (4). You can find it here: A History of Virulence: The Body and Computer Culture in the 1980s (part 1) http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/2010/10/15/a-history-of-virulence-the-body-an... A History of Virulence: The Body and Computer Culture in the 1980s (part 2 with illustrations and references) http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/2010/10/18/a-history-of-virulence-the-body-an... Cheers, Antonio -- Antonio A. Casilli Centre Edgar-Morin IIAC UMR8177 CNRS/EHESS 22, rue d'Athènes 75009 - Paris France blog: http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/ web: http://www.iiac.cnrs.fr/cetsah/spip.php?article26