Deconstruction Machines: Writing in the Age of Cyberwar

Description

Justin Joque explores the fundamental nature of cyberwar through a detailed investigation of the crisis points when cybersecurity systems break down and reveal their internal contradictions. He envisions cyberwar as a form of writing, and that cyber attacks should be seen as a militarized form of deconstruction in which computer programs are systems that operate within the broader world of texts.

Justin Joque is the data visualization librarian at the University of Michigan. Catherine Malabou is a philosopher and professor in the Philosophy Department at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London.

"Deconstruction machines provides a powerful insight into how cyberwar serves to militarize writing, threatens civic infrastructure and thereby brings war into the code and software that governs our everyday lives." -International Affairs