Hacking in the humanities : cybersecurity, speculative fiction, and navigating a digital future / Aaron Mauro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mauro, Aaron, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in digital cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital humanities.

Computer security.

Scholarly electronic publishing.

Speculative fiction--History and criticism.

Speculative fiction.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 206 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"What would it take to hack a human? How exploitable are we? In the cybersecurity industry, professionals know that the weakest component of any system sits between the chair and the keyboard. This book looks to speculative fiction, cyberpunk and the digital humanities to bring a human - and humanistic - perspective to the issue of cybersecurity. It argues that through these stories we are able to predict the future political, cultural, and social realities emerging from technological change. Making the case for a security-minded humanities education, this book examines pressing issues of data security, privacy, social engineering and more, illustrating how the humanities offer the critical, technical, and ethical insights needed to oppose the normalization of surveillance, disinformation, and coercion. Within this counter-cultural approach to technology, this book offers a model of activism to intervene and meaningfully resist government and corporate oversight online. In doing so, it argues for a wider notion of literacy, which includes the ability to write and fight the computer code that shapes our lives."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Human Exploits: An Introduction to Hacking and the Humanities

The Darkest Timeline

Don't Be Evil

Claiming the Future

A Mischievous Spirit

1. "Hack the Planet": Pop Hackers and the Demands of a Real World Resistance

Parler Tricks

Anthological Freedom

Street-Level Anarchy

Polymorphic Protest Culture

2. Academic Attack Surfaces: Culture Jamming the Future and XML Bombs

Prescient Pessimism

A Jussive Mood

Sudo rm -rf

A Billion Laughs

3. Supply Chain Attacks and Knowledge Networks: Network Sovereignty and the Interplanetary Internet

A Consensual Hallucination

El Paquete

Sovereign Networks

Don't Worry, We're from the Internet

4. Cryptographic Agility and the Right to Privacy: Secret Writing and the Cypherpunks

Tales from the Crypt

The Enemy Knows the System

Happy Birthday

Ignoti et quasi occulti

5. Biohacking and the Autonomous Androids: Human Evolution and Biometric Data

Vital Machines

The Selfish Ledger

Virtual Influences

Cindy Mayweather

Arch Android

6. Gray Hat Humanities: Surveillance Capitalism, Object-Oriented Ontology, and Design Fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1350230987

9781350230989

1350231029

9781350231023

OCLC:

1281141185

Publisher Number:

99991192636