The exploit : a theory of networks /
Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [χ.χ.]
- 196 p.; 21 εκ.
On reading this book -- Proleogmenon: "we're tired of trees" -- A global dynamic -political atomism-unilateralism versus multilateralism-ubiquity and universality-occultism and cryptography-networks fighting networks-the new sovereignty -- Nodes -- Technology (or theory) -- Theory (or technology) -- Protocol in computer networks -- Protocol in biological networks -- An encoded life -- Toward a political ontology of networks -- The defacement of enmity -- Biopolitics and protocol -- Life-resistance -- The exploit -- Counterprotocol -- Edges -- The datum of cura I -- The datum of cura II -- Sovereignty and biology I -- Sovereignty and biology II -- Abandoning the body politic -- The ghost in the network -- Birth of the algorithm -- Political animals -- Sovereignty and the state of emergency -- Fork bomb I -- Epidemic and endemic -- Network being -- Good viruses (simSARS I) -- Medical surveillance (simSARS II) -- Feedback versus interaction I -- Feedback versus interaction II -- Rhetorics of freedom -- A Google search for my body -- Divine metabolism -- Fork bomb II -- The paranormal and the pathological I -- The paranormal and the pathological II -- Universals of identification -- RFC001b: BMTP -- Fork bomb III -- Unknown unknowns -- Codification, not reification -- Tactics of nonexistence -- Disappearance| or, I've seen it all before -- Stop motion -- Pure metal -- The hypertrophy of matter -- The user and the programmer -- Fork bomb IV -- Interface -- There is no content -- Trash, junk, spam -- Coda: bits and atoms -- Appendix: Notes for a liberated computer language -- Notes -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Bioinformatics Computer network protocol Computer networks Philosophy. Social networks Sovereignty