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The exploit : a theory of networks /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Galloway, Alexander R., 1974-
Other Authors: Thacker, Eugene
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
Series:Electronic mediations ; v. 21.
Subjects:
Social networks.
Computer networks.
Computer network protocols.
Bioinformatics > Philosophy.
Sovereignty.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • On reading this book
  • Proleogmenon: "we're tired of trees"
  • Provisional response 1: political atomism (the Nietzschean argument)
  • Provisional response 2: unilateralism versus multilateralism (the Foucauldian argument)
  • Provisional response 3: ubiquity and universality (the Determinist argument)
  • Provisional response 4: occultism and cryptography (the Nominalist argument)
  • 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.