The Exploit: A Theory of Networks - asounder

Ideas in this book have been previously published in different form in the following
essays cowritten by the authors: “Protocol and Counter - Protocol,” in Code: The
Language of Our Time, ed. Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schöpf (Linz: Ars Elec -
tronica, 2003); “Protocol, Control, and Networks,” Grey Room 17 (Fall 2004); “In
Defiance of Existence: Notes on Networks, Control, and Life - Forms,” in Feelings Are
Always Local: DEAF04—Affective Turbulence, ed. Joke Brouwer et al. (Rotterdam:
V2_Publishing/ NAi Publishers, 2004); “Networks, Control, and Life - Forms,” in
“Virtual Communities: Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in
Virtual Communities,” ed. Jason Nolan and Jeremy Hunsinge, SIGGROUP Bulletin
25, no. 2 (2005), http: // doi.acm.org/ 10.1145/ 1067721.1067722; “The Metaphysics of
Networks,” in Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression, ed. Robert
Atkins and Svetlana Mintcheva (New York: New Press, 2006), reprinted by per -
mission of the New Press; “On Misanthropy,” in Curating Immateriality: The Work of
the Curator in the Age of Network Systems, ed. Joasia Krysa (New York: Autonomedia,
2006); “Language, Life, Code,” Architectural Digest, September– October 2006.
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Galloway, Alexander R., 1974–
The exploit : a theory of networks / Alexander R. Galloway and
Eugene Thacker.
p. cm. — (Electronic mediations ; Vol. 21)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5043-9 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8166-5043-8 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5044-6 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8166-5044-6 (pb : alk. paper)
1. Social networks. 2. Computer networks. 3. Computer
network protocols. 4. Bioinformatics—Philosophy. 5. Sovereignty.
I. Thacker, Eugene. II. Title.
HM741.G34 2007
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