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A computer virus is software designed to copy its own code onto other computers. Although the first ones were invented almost as soon as the first computers, it wasn't until the 1980s that they were called "viruses." The term allowed for associations in the media: methods of intrusion, contagion procedures, modes of infection… It was the pre-existence of HIV that made it possible to imagine self-replicating software in viral terms. Our computers also had AIDS.
The notion of a computer virus appeared in 1984, just after conservative journalist Pat Buchanan published his diatribe about "how the gay plague was devouring the supporters of the sexual revolution," after an image of the virus appeared on the front page of The New York Times. Using AIDS as a semantic space of intersection, it wasn't difficult to imagine the computer as a body and its operating system as the human immune system. Like AIDS, the computer virus spread through software exchanges between individuals, just as bodily fluids are exchanged during sexual relations. This parallel was explicitly used by the president of the Computer Virus Industry Association in a New York Times article: “Stricter (protective) procedures—telling people not to touch other people’s computers or to use public domain software—are a bit like telling people not to have sex to stop the spread of AIDS.”
It was also about criminalizing the “hacker” subculture, as had been done with the gay subculture, sex work, or racialized bodies, considering it potentially terrorist—computer “viruses” were referred to as “letter bombs” or “electronic attacks.” By 1984, the internet (born in 1983 from the transformation of ARPANET) already had several thousand connected personal computers, and computing was progressively becoming the new language of global capitalism. It is in this context that the computer virus appears as a correlate of AIDS.
Both the computer virus metaphor and the description of the virus in immunological terms rested on a poststructuralist and computer science understanding of complex systems. Furthermore, the political management of AIDS had functioned as a negative sexual cartography. The question is not what contaminated what, whether HIV contaminated the semantic field in which the computer virus could spread or vice versa, but rather understanding that from the mid-20th century onward, a paradigm shift was already underway, a new way of understanding the relationships between the living and the non-living, the organic and the inorganic. All of this was only possible within this new communicative paradigm in which carbon and silicon ceased to be mutually exclusive and became part of the same global economic and political system. It is precisely there that the mutation was taking place. That is the viral reality in which we live today. That is why Wuhan is everywhere.
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A year in Palestine, living in fear of not just genocide — but AIDS.
E.S. is a 27-year-old queer, HIV-positive Palestinian who agreed to speak with The Intercept using a pseudonym to avoid community stigma and targeting by the Israeli authorities.