Networks in peril: destruction, subversion, and sabotage (19th-21st centuries)
Benjamin G. Thierry and Valérie Schafer (eds.)
From the appearance of the word sabotage
in France at the end of the 19th
century and its theorization, notably by Émile Pouget (Albertelli, 2016), to recent cyberattacks, including the destruction of communication routes during wartime, networks share a large number of common vulnerabilities despite their diversity (information and communication, energy, banks, transportation, engineering structures, etc.). In this respect, they are a prime target because of what they represent or the organization they support.
Are networks subject to a particular form of misotechnology
(Jarrige, 2016)? Do they have specific vulnerabilities that need to be guarded against (Baran, 1964; Abramovici, Bradley, 2009), and how are these negotiated, assessed, and managed? What roles do networks play as targets or objectives in conventional and unconventional conflicts (Kempf, 2014; Pinsolle, 2015)? Have the targets, issues, and actors fundamentally changed over time (Pasquinelli, 2010), and do they differ according to the scale and scope of intervention?
This issue of Flux
aims to take an interdisciplinary look at projects and acts of destruction, subversion, and sabotage of networks, as well as past and present vulnerabilities and attempts at specific protection measures.
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Calendar May 15, 2018
Submission of proposals (an abstract accompanied by a bibliography and a short biography of the author)
Abstracts should be sent to:
June 15, 2018
Feedback to authors (an invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee its final acceptance, which is subject to double review)
October 15, 2018
Submission of full text (50,000 characters including spaces)
References
Abramovici M., Bradley P., 2009, Integrated circuit security: new threats and solutions, in: Sheldon F., Peterson G., Krings A., Abercrombie R., Mili A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Annual Workshop on Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research: Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Challenges and Strategies
(CSIIRW '09), New York: ACM.
Albertelli S., 2016, Histoire du sabotage. De la CGT à la Résistance
, Paris: Perrin.
Baran P., 1964, On distributed communications. Introduction to distributed communications networks
, August 1964 – Rand Corporation, Online archives.
Jarrige F., 2016, Technocritiques
, Paris: La Découverte.
Kempf O., 2014, Thinking Networks: A Strategic Approach
, Paris: L’Harmattan.
Pasquinelli M., 2010, The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage, Policy Futures in Education
Vol 8, Issue 6, pp. 671-682.
Pinsolle D., 2015, From slowdown to derailment: the development of sabotage in France (1897-1914), History, Economy & Society
, vol. 34th year, no. 4, pp. 56-72.