VCC400H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Veritas Technologies, Computer Virus, Risk Society
2 Aug 2016
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Vcc 400 j parikka digital contagions readings. In 2002, frankfurt museum for applied art added a new type of object to its collections: the computer virus or more specifically viral code. Viruses are considered part of a cultural historical assemblage of digital culture. Noise is not just noise but something that can be cultivated. Virus can be seen as a key cultural condensation point of network culture, a sort of fundamental object. Viral capitalism: ability to translate seemingly hostile cultural flows into an integral part of the production of digital software and services in the form of the security industry. The risk society of network culture can be seen as a second-order capitalist system from which noise is not excluded. Instead, the more tolerant systems are, the more strongly they function. Risk management became a key concern of software as well. Experimental reproductive software had been programmed in various computer labs and university departments in the united states since the.
