critical infrastructure lab

The wars in Ukraine and Palestine raise new questions about digital self-determination, digital sovereignty, the use of digital tools in warfare, resistance, and democracies. On November 15, the Digital Networks, Communications, and Technologies Cluster of ARTES is organizing a research seminar to exchange ideas about the social, cultural, and political impacts of war. This research seminar brings together different perspectives to understand the role of technologies in military warfare, digital infrastructures under fire, the role of culture in times of occupation, and the everyday lives of people affected by war.

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Supply Chain Security in Software Infrastructures: Pagers exploded in Lebanon on September 2024, thrusting supply chain attacks into the spotlight of global media attention. As a breakdown of logistical media, this attack harks back to a longer history of engagement with supply chain security issues in the world of computing. I examine such background through dissecting empirical examples based on archival material pertaining to software infrastructures that developers rely on for ensuring the authenticity of their products. Ultimately, exploding pagers can serve as an edge case for the theoretical framework of infrastructural ideologies that is being developed under the aegis of the critical infrastructure lab.

Location: Belle van Zuylenzaal at the University Library, Singel 425.

Time: 09:00-12:00