Living Dead Networks

Abstract

This essay explores, through a series of condensed modules, the ways in which contagion operates in both biological and informational networks.Through an examination of the fields of information security and medical surveillance, computer viruses and mathematical epidemiology, and pathogenic information and informed pathogens, this essay asks how the political relation between 'control' and 'emergence' is formed in networks in which the distinction between information and biology breaks down.

Keywords

• biological networks
• informational networks