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- <section id="author">
- <h4>About the Author</h4>
- <p>Deborah Lupton worked already in 1993 on the analogy
- between the communication of technology threats and of
- diseases, she presents us the analogy that is voluntary
- made between the computer and the body in a hygienic
- society where we tend to rely on centralized organisation
- to desinfect and sanitize our world. Since then the issue
- of scale and control.</p>
- </section>
- <section id="sources">
- <h4>Sources</h4>
- <p><a href="assets/BookChapt_TacticalBiopolitics_subRosa.pdf">
- <em>Panic computing: The viral metaphor and computer technology</em></a>,
- Cultural Studies, 8:3, pp.556—568 ISSN 0950-2386</p> (Subrosa; 1999)
- </section>
+ <aside>
+ <section id="author">
+ <h2>About the Author</h2>
+ <p>Deborah Lupton worked already in 1993 on the analogy
+ between the communication of technology threats and of
+ diseases, she presents us the analogy that is voluntary
+ made between the computer and the body in a hygienic
+ society where we tend to rely on centralized organisation
+ to desinfect and sanitize our world. Since then the issue
+ of scale and control.</p>
+ </section>
+ <section id="sources">
+ <h2>Sources</h2>
+ <p><a href="assets/BookChapt_TacticalBiopolitics_subRosa.pdf">
+ <em>Panic computing: The viral metaphor and computer technology</em></a>,
+ Cultural Studies, 8:3, pp.556—568, ISSN 0950-2386</p>
+ </section>
+ </aside>
<section id="scare">
- <h4> Panic computing: The viral metaphor and computer technology </h4>
+ <h2> Panic computing: The viral metaphor and computer technology </h2>
<p>The unproblematic use of the term 'virus' applied to
technological artefacts, inspire ponderings on the wider
@@ -61,7 +63,7 @@
significance on another' (1973: 210).</p>
</section>
<section id="viruses-and-the-computer-corpus">
- <h4>Viruses and the Computer Corpus</h4>
+ <h2>Viruses and the computer corpus</h2>
<p>The present analysis examines in detail the
stratification of meaning evident in the widespread and
@@ -82,7 +84,7 @@
capitalist societies.</p>
</section>
<section id="morality-and-viral-politics">
- <h4>Morality and viral politics</h4>
+ <h2>Morality and viral politics</h2>
<p>There are no "good" Germs or 'normal Germs; all Germs are
bad' (Helman, 1978: 118-19). To counter this attack, as
@@ -101,7 +103,7 @@
metaphor (Montgomery, 1991: 350).</p>
</section>
<section id="the-seduction-and-terror-of-cyberspace">
- <h4>The seduction and terror of cyberspace</h4>
+ <h2>The seduction and terror of cyberspace</h2>
<p>The viral metaphor has been adopted in computing
terminology to express the meanings of rapid spread and
invisible invasion of an entity that is able to reproduce
@@ -139,7 +141,7 @@
(Haraway, 1989: 15).</p>
</section>
<section id="the-viral-metaphor-and-technophobia">
- <h4>The viral metaphor and technophobia</h4>
+ <h2>The viral metaphor and technophobia</h2>
<p>At the fin de millénnium, the body is a site of toxicity,
contamination and catastrophe, subject to and needful of
a high degree of surveillance and control. Kroker and