Abstract
Taking Walter Benjamin’s essay A critique of violence as starting point, Geoff Cox analyses the notion of violence as an idea inherent to language and software, and questions its uses and ethical consequences.
There is an inherent violence of software. Our network operations are dominated by violent acts against us in the form of viruses, spam, phishing, and botnets, and more to point violence is encoded in software itself. Like language, we enter informational infrastructures (...)
pp. 28-39.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 28-39 |
| Journal | Concreta |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2015 |
