ISBN:
9780816653973
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (206 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.483301
Keywords:
Bioinformatics -- Philosophy
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Computer network protocols
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Computer networks
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Social networks
;
Sovereignty
;
Electronic books ; local
;
Bioinformatics ; Philosophy
;
Computer network protocols
;
Computer networks
;
Social networks
;
Sovereignty
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker challenge the widespread assumption that networks are inherently egalitarian. Instead, they contend that there exist new modes of control entirely native to networks, modes that are at once highly centralized and dispersed, corporate and subversive. In this provocative book, they argue that a whole new topology must be invented to resist and reshape the network form.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- On Reading This Book -- Prolegomenon: "We're Tired of Trees" -- Provisional Response 1: Political Atomism (the Nietzschean Argument) -- Provisional Response 2: Unilateralism versus Multilateralism (the Foucauldian Argument) -- Provisional Response 3: Ubiquity and Universality (the Determinist Argument) -- Provisional Response 4: Occultism and Cryptography (the Nominalist Argument) -- Part I. Nodes -- Technology (or Theory) -- Theory (or Technology) -- Protocol in Computer Networks -- Protocol in Biological Networks -- An Encoded Life -- Toward a Political Ontology of Networks -- The Defacement of Enmity -- Biopolitics and Protocol -- Life-Resistance -- The Exploit -- Counterprotocol -- Part II. Edges -- The Datum of Cura I -- The Datum of Cura II -- Sovereignty and Biology I -- Sovereignty and Biology II -- Abandoning the Body Politic -- The Ghost in the Network -- Birth of the Algorithm -- Political Animals -- Sovereignty and the State of Emergency -- Fork Bomb I -- Epidemic and Endemic -- Network Being -- Good Viruses (SimSARS I) -- Medical Surveillance (SimSARS II) -- Feedback versus Interaction I -- Feedback versus Interaction II -- Rhetorics of Freedom -- A Google Search for My Body -- Divine Metabolism -- Fork Bomb II -- The Paranormal and the Pathological I -- The Paranormal and the Pathological II -- Universals of Identification -- RFC001b: BmTP -- Fork Bomb III -- Unknown Unknowns -- Codification, Not Reification -- Tactics of Nonexistence -- Disappearance -- or, I've Seen It All Before -- Stop Motion -- Pure Metal -- The Hypertrophy of Matter (Four Definitions and One Axiom) -- The User and the Programmer -- Fork Bomb IV -- Interface -- There Is No Content -- Trash, Junk, Spam -- Coda: Bits and Atoms -- Appendix: Notes for a Liberated Computer Language -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I.
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