
The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)

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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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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Alexander R. Galloway • 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)
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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banality of the…
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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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between the poles of the global and…
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