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Body and Society 16, 4 (2010) 1-31

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

Antonio A. Casilli 1, 2

(2010)

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.

1 :	Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information [Paris] (LTCI)
	Télécom ParisTech – CNRS : UMR5141
2 :	Centre Edgar Morin/Equipe IIAC (CEM-IIAC)
	École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] – CNRS : UMR8177

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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie

Mots Clés : body – computer culture – virus – hacker – HIV/AIDS – activism – virality

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