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Notes
Prolegomenon
1. For more on the dialogue, see Geert Lovink and Florian Schneider,
“Notes on the State of Networking,” Nettime, February 29, 2004; and our
reply titled “The Limits of Networking,” Nettime, March 24, 2004.
2. This is seen in books like Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attack.
3. Pit Schultz, “The Idea of Nettime,” Nettime, June 20, 2006.
4. Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community (Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 1993), 85.
5. It’s important to point out that terms such as “postmodernity” or
“late modernity” are characterized less by their having broken with or somehow
postdated modernity, but instead exist in a somewhat auxiliary rapport
with modernity, a rapport that was never quite a break to begin with and
may signal coincidence rather than disagreement. Fredric Jameson’s book A
Singular Modernity (London: Verso, 2002) plots this somewhat confusing
boomerang effect.
6. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in
the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin, 2004), 62.
7. John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, “Fight Networks with Networks,”
http: // www.rand.org/ publications/ randreview/ issues/ rr.12.01/ fullalert
.html#networks (accessed June 11, 2005). Arquilla and Ronfeldt qualify this:
“Al - Qaeda seems to hold advantages at the organizational, doctrinal, and
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