
The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)

Protocol is twofold; it is both an apparatus that facilitates networks and a logic that governs how things are done within that apparatus.
Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
But in any contemporary situation, the issue of naming, or indeed the problem of substituting a title or name for a…
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Media networks propagate messages from terrorists to all corners of the globe, just as airline networks…
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In the broadest sense, protocol is a technology that regulates flow, directs nets pace, codes relationships, and connects life-forms.
Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
Following Foucault, to become unilateral, it is necessary to become multilateral, but via a veiled, cryptic sort of multilateralism. To…
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postmodernity is characterized by frictions between structurally incommensurate political diagrams,where ultimately one is…
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Beyond international affairs, the theory of American exceptionalism also has implications for a political theory of networks. In contrast to Lovink, we maintain that in recent decades the processes of globalization have mutated from a system of control housed in a relatively small number of power hubs to a system of control infused into the materia
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Asymmetry-the diagram is the…
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The first topology is a "politics of symmetry" perhaps best exemplified in the modern era by the symmetrical conflicts between the Soviets and the Americans, or earlier between the Allied and Axis powers. But this mode of political conflict was gradually superseded by a second one, in the second half of the twentieth century, which might
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