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A history of virulence. The body and computer culture in the 1980s

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Analysing both mainstream and underground computer-related press sources from 1982 to 1991, a discursive core is displayed revolving around contamination and sexually transmissible diseases. The "computer virus" metaphor, popularized in that period, came to resonate with mounting moral panic over the HIV/AIDS epidemic. These anxieties about the body are then conceptualized (and historically contextualized) along two dimensions : 1) the political proximity between HIV/AIDS activists and computer hackers during the FDA clinical trials controversy of 1987-88 ; 2) the ideological reinforcement provided by academic progressive elements to these political actions.

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Sociologie
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hal-00661414 , version 1 (19-01-2012)

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Antonio A. Casilli. A history of virulence. The body and computer culture in the 1980s. Body and Society, 2010, 16 (4), pp.1-31. ⟨10.1177/1357034X10383880⟩. ⟨hal-00661414⟩
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