Posts Tagged: Definition

Matthias Schulze very competently argues that ‘cyberwar’ is not war in any way that we usually understand war. I’m sympathetic. But in deconstructing the term ‘cyberwar’ Matthias also hopes to eliminate the term ‘cyberpeace’ because, as the implied binary of ‘cyberwar’, it would no longer be necessary. I’m going to argue that ‘cyberpeace’ is more than semantic nonsense. It’s a term that makes cyberwar more salient in the public imaginary of the Internet and implicitly militarizes the discussion.

Almost too pretty to kill. Source: el arma homicida by Elisabeth D’Orcy under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0