Digital Contagions

This talk focuses on the book Digital Contagions: An Archaeology of Computer Viruses (Peter Lang publishing, 2nd. Edition 2016) and introduces its key themes. From emergence of viruses as a specific software based risk in network culture to the general accident of contagions, the book outlines questions of viral capitalism, immunity, and other themes that resonate also now in our contemporary context.
Speaker:
Jussi Parikka professor of Technological Culture & Aesthetics at University of Southampton, UK and a Visiting Professor at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague. He leads the project Operational Images and Visual Culture (2019-2023, funded by the Czech Science Academy) and he is the author of several books on digital culture, media archaeology and cultural theory.
The event is part of the Digital Delights and Disturbances Lecture Series (Pandemic Edition) presented by the JCU Communications Department.