Computers under Attacks!

The war metaphor seems to establish itself as soon as we deal with computer viruses. The concept of war is a central topic of political philosophy. The relationships between "hackers" and "crackers" and information technology world are based on power relations, whose issues are politic, economic and epistemological. We wonder whether the computer disease phenomenon is a modern representation of the war and the relationships of power, as it is suggested in Foucault from Les Mots et Les Choses. So, it is legitimate to compare the aspects of this war with the classical analyses of war, which in the literature are founded by the classical Greco-Roman philosophers, or the modern ones such as Machiavelli or Clausewitz.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CAISE
• Authors: Anne Bonfante, Jean-Yves Marion
• Keywords: CAISE 2006, Classical Greco-roman Philosophers, Information Management, Mots Et Les, War Metaphor