Malware of history

The encryption of the once and future violence in Novi Sad (Vojvodina, Serbia)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2230692
AutoresGalina Oustinova‐stjepanovic (autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen15
Número2
Páginas379-397
Fecha de publicación2025-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433
EditorialHAU-N.E.T (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1086/736176
OpenAlexW4412746556
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas78

The article explores a proliferation of architecture to commemorate the events of the Second World War atrocities and their aftermath in Novi Sad. Running serially along the left bank of the Danube are four memorials: a foundation for a controversial monument; a socialist-built, figurative sculptural complex; a cube without planning permission; and a construction site for a future multi-million memorial. Architecturally trivial monoliths are integral to three of them. The overuse of monoliths in memorialization is linked to their semantic opacity since a monolith might commemorate either victims or perpetrators of a violent event. What's more, opacity makes commemorative monoliths prone to infection with the malware of history, a latency for political violence that haunts a city traversed by an ethno-nationalist politics of history. An analogic transposition between predatory intentionalities of traps and malware affords a reflection on menacing things and names of the dead as a revelatory technique of apophantic justice

Computer security · Malware · Computer Science · History · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence