Issue 04 – Contagion and the Diseases of Information
We do not lack communication. On the contrary, we have too much of it. We lack creation. We lack resistance to the present. (Deleuze and Guattari, 1994: 108) This issue of Fibreculture Journal,...
View ArticleFCJ-018 Living Dead Networks
Eugene Thacker School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology Contagion and Transmission In contemporary popular culture, ideas about contagion are often tied up with...
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FCJ-019 Digital Monsters, Binary Aliens – Computer Viruses, Capitalism and...
Jussi Parikka Department of Cultural History, University of Turku, Finland As an analogy to a computer virus, consider a biological disease that is 100% infectious, spreads whenever animals...
View ArticleFCJ-020 Marginal Networks: The Virus between Complexity and Suppression
Roberta Buiani York University, Canada ‘What is a Margin ?’ I asked a friend recently. You know what a margin is” she replied “It’s outside the body of the text. It’s what holds the page together....
View ArticleFCJ-021 Rhythmic Parasites: A Virological Analysis of Sound and Dance
Stamatia Portanova East London University Introduction This paper sets out a conceptual analysis of rhythm as a force of disruption and of re-organisation. By disentangling rhythm from human...
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