Exploit A Theory of Networks

Name: Exploit A Theory of Networks
Price: 6.48 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780816650446

ISBN-10: 0816650446

ISBN-13: 9780816650446

Edition: 2007

Authors: Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker

List price: $18.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $19.87

Marketplace

5 new & used from $6.48

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

ldquo;The Exploitis that rare thing: a book with a clear grasp of how networks operate that also understands the political implications of this emerging form of power. It cuts through the nonsense about how 'free' and 'democratic' networks supposedly are, and it offers a rich analysis of how network protocols create a new kind of control. Essential reading for all theorists, artists, activists, techheads, and hackers of the Net.rdquo; -McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto nbsp; The network has become the core organizational structure for postmodern politics, culture, and life, replacing the modern erarsquo;s hierarchical systems. From peer-to-peer file sharing and massive…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



On Reading This Book


Prolegomenon: "We're Tired of Trees"



Political Atomism (the Nietzschean Argument)



Unilateralism versus


Multilateralism (the Foucauldian Argument)



Ubiquity and Universality (the Determinist Argument)



Occultism and Cryptography (the Nominalist Argument)



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



Edges














Abandoning the Body Politic


The Ghost in the Network


Birth of the Algorithm


Political Animals


Sovereignty and the State of Emergency





Epidemic and Endemic


Network Being


Good Viruses (SimSARS I)


Medical Surveillance (SimSARS II)








Rhetorics of Freedom


A Google Search for My Body


Divine Metabolism











Universals of Identification


RFC001b: BmTP





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





Interface


There Is No Content


Trash, Junk, Spam


Coda: Bits and Atoms



Notes for a Liberated Computer Language


Notes


Index