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From viral marketing to computer viruses, the cultural logic of virality permeates the Web. The December 2010 issue of the Sage journal Body & Society will publish my long-awaited 36-page essay “A History of Virulence: The Body and Computer Culture in the 1980s”. The text that follows is the second part of the “author’s cut” version of the article: an archeology of computer-mediated moral panic, autonomist marxist hacking, and AIDS activism.

Hitler parody video voices the disappointment of old time academics, threatened by up-and-coming digital scholars: “We were great once. A proud institution. We controlled knowledge: we told everyone what and how to think. Now (…) we spend our time propping up our fading legitimacy”.

(This is just my opinion. But in case you had to face a similar decision this might help…) It’s the… read more Creative Commons or Wikipedia? Who to support?

Yes, I know. As of lately, I’ve been an absent father to this blog. It’s the summertime and I’m just… read more Vintage Swiss giant robot: "how much ya bench?"

Sunday in Sao Paulo – people strolling along the deserted Minhocão, “The Giant Earthworm”. This monstuous elevated road is busy… read more Hidden track #4: ridind the Giant Earthworm in Brazil