The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
Because its scope is so local, it can only account for the large-scale effects of network conflict by moving from local conflict to local conflict (in effect, moving from node to node). Nietzsche's notes in The Will to Power reveal this atomistic bias. Nietzsche begins from the analysis of "quanta of power" in constant interaction, and th
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We repeat: the mere existence of networks does not imply democracy or equality. If anything, it is this existence-as-such of networks that needs to be thought; the existence of networks invites us to…
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Any instance of naming always produces its shadowy double: nominalism, that is, the notion that universal descriptors do not adequately represent the referents…
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The network, it appears, has emerged as a dominant form describing the nature of control today, as…
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Instead we want to suggest that the juncture between sovereignty and networks is the place where the apparent contradictions in…
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Furthermore, an effective political understanding of the situation cannot begin from the terminal effects of power relations. Instead one might ask: what power relationships need to be in place such that a single entity…
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Perhaps there is no greater lesson about networks than the lesson about control: networks, by their mere existence, are not liberating; they exercise novel forms of control that operate at a level that…
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Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
But this same wisdom hasn't yet indicated quite what that means, nor how one might be able to draft a critique of networks.