The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
Inside the dense web of distributed networks, it would appear that everything is everywhere-the consequence of a worldview that leaves little room
Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
The network, it appears, has emerged as a dominant form describing the nature of control today, as…
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Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
yes, it is possible to acknowledge the networked characterof power, but at the end of the day, it is the American president who makes decisions concerning war, resources, and trade. While this is undoubtedly true, it can also be argued that the political iconography of the presidency…
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Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
Technical protocols are organized into layers (application, transport, Internet, physical); they formalize the way a network operates. This also allows us to understand networks such as the Internet as being more than merely technical.
Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
They are, we suggest, a medium of contemporary power, and yet no single subject or group…
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Hence a contradiction: the self-regulating and self-organizing qualities of emergent networked phenomena appear to engender and supplement the very thing that makes us human, yet one's ability to superimpose top-down control on that emergent structure evaporates in the blossoming of the network form,…
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This is why contemporary political dynamics are decidedly different from those in previous decades: there exists today a fearful new symmetry of networks fighting networks. One must understand how networks act…
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while networks are entirely coincident with social life, networks also carry with them the most nonhuman…
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