The Exploit

by Galloway, Alexander R.

• ISBN13: 9780816650446
• ISBN10: 0816650446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

The network has become the core organizational structure for postmodern politics, culture, and life, replacing the modern era's hierarchical systems. From peer-to-peer file sharing and massive multiplayer online games to contagion vectors of digital or biological viruses and global affiliations of terrorist organizations, the network form has become so invasive that nearly every aspect of contemporary society can be located within it.

Author Biography

Alexander R. Galloway is assistant professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University Eugene Thacker is associate professor of new media in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Table of Contents

On Reading This Book	p. vii
Prolegomenon: "We're Tired of Trees"	p. 1
Political Atomism (the Nietzschean Argument)
Unilateralism versus
Multilateralism (the Foucauldian Argument)
Ubiquity and Universality (the Determinist Argument)
Occultism and Cryptography (the Nominalist Argument)
Nodes	p. 23
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	p. 103
Abandoning the Body Politic
The Ghost in the Network
Birth of the Algorithm
Political Animals
Sovereignty and the State of Emergency
Epidemic and Endemic
Network Being
Good Viruses (SimSARS I)
Medical Surveillance (SimSARS II)
Rhetorics of Freedom
A Google Search for My Body
Divine Metabolism
Universals of Identification
RFC001b: BmTP
Unknown Unknowns
Codification, Not Reification
Tactics of Nonexistence
Disappearance; or, I've Seen It All Before
Stop Motion
Pure Metal
The Hypertrophy of Matter (Four Definitions and One Axiom)
The User and the Programmer
Interface
There Is No Content
Trash, Junk, Spam
Coda: Bits and Atoms	p. 149
Notes for a Liberated Computer Language	p. 159
Notes	p. 167
Index	p. 183
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