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When Language Compiles

Language EnglishEnglish
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Book When Language Compiles Martine M. Osias
Libristo code: 53671119
Publishers Indy Pub, September 2026
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What happens when the darkest edges of our language become the operating instructions for our machines?

This book unmasks the metaphors quietly laundered through technical practice - words of war, contagion, and social predation that shape how systems are imagined, built, and justified.

Each chapter tracks a category of linguistic capture:

   War - retaliation, siege, sabotage, encirclement - hostility presented as as routine procedure.

   Biological metaphors - heartbeat, infection, mutation, decay - language that animates machines as living, sick, or dying.

   Social-behavior metaphors - gossip, eavesdropping, harassment, bystander traffic - protocol language that encodes rumor, surveillance, and complicity as neutral design choices.

Using a samplet set of terms to show Language repurposing, the book reveals a concealed architecture: a working lexicon that masks violence, disease, and social harm by binding them to machines. This is not intended as a glossary; it is an exposure and a warning. Every metaphor is a signal. Every signal reaches someone.

When the language of war, disease, and cruelty becomes the default vocabulary of technology, it ceases to be neutral. Those metaphors authorize damage, invisibilize harm, and bend minds toward violence-then teach us to accept the result. This drift is neither inevitable nor harmless, and it could have been avoided. It must be reversed now.

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About the book

Full name When Language Compiles
Language English
Binding Book - Paperback
Date of issue 2026
Number of pages 164
EAN 9798869003980
Libristo code 53671119
Publishers Indy Pub
Weight 230
Dimensions 152 x 229 x 9
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