The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
Instead we want to suggest that the juncture between sovereignty and networks is the place where the apparent contradictions in…
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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)
In a graph, the number of nodes is called the "order" (in the square example, INI = 4), and the number of edges is called the "size" ( I E I = 4).
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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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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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)
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 these quanta
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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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Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
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
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