strange that you haven't come across this before: (2007) Digital Contagions. A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses, Peter Lang: New York. Digital Formations-series. ISBN 978-0-8204-8837-0 (2009) The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture. With Tony D Sampson. Cresskill: Hampton Press. best roberta buiani On Oct 20, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Antonio A. Casilli wrote:

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

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