The Psychology of the Staxnet Worm

Scholar of media studies and Chernobyl expert Svitlana Matviyenko joins us from Kamyanets Podilskyi, Ukraine to discuss critical infrastructure security and the imminence of cyberwarfare.
 On this episode, Svitlana, who is also the co-author of Cyberwar & Revolution: Digital Subterfuge of Global Capitalism (U. Minnesota Press, 2020) gives an expanded definition of “cybernetic warfare” and what she calls “communicative militarism”; connects psychological-operations with the post-war “commercial seduction of the subject”; reveals present-day strategies of “audience production,” and unpacks the post-digital terms of mutually assured destruction. Subscriber release: 1 May 2022 For more: https://twitter.com/svitlanax https://networkcultures.org/blog/author/svitlana/ https://www.sfu.ca/communication/team/faculty/svitlana-matviyenko.html