BETWEEN DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL: THE STUXNET CYBERWEAPON
In CMS/BUS 385 “Surveillance, Privacy and Social Identities: Practices and Representations”, I discussed how Stuxnet relates to contemporary surveillance in international conflicts and the way in which it bridges the physical and the digital realm applying Jussi Parikka’s theory of the self-reproductive nature of the worm, acting as a biological system in relation to the contemporary evolutionary idea of capitalism discussed in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Anti-oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1983): computer worms and viruses are part of a digital sanitation program, in which users must prevent the attack and the spread of the disease in computer systems by maintaining high standards of sanitation inside the postmodern society, and these hygienic measures aim to preserve the media ecological system of capitalism, which is fostered by the treatments for the disease.
