14.04.2015 Views

The Exploit: A Theory of Networks - asounder

The Exploit: A Theory of Networks - asounder

The Exploit: A Theory of Networks - asounder

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

Contents<br />

On Reading This Book<br />

vii<br />

Prolegomenon: “We’re Tired <strong>of</strong> Trees” 1<br />

Provisional Response 1: Political Atomism (the Nietzschean<br />

Argument)—Provisional Response 2: Unilateralism versus<br />

Multilateralism (the Foucauldian Argument)—Provisional<br />

Response 3: Ubiquity and Universality (the Determinist<br />

Argument)—Provisional Response 4: Occultism and<br />

Cryptography (the Nominalist Argument)<br />

Part I. Nodes 23<br />

Technology (or <strong>The</strong>ory)—<strong>The</strong>ory (or Technology)—Protocol<br />

in Computer <strong>Networks</strong>—Protocol in Biological <strong>Networks</strong>—<br />

An Encoded Life—Toward a Political Ontology <strong>of</strong> <strong>Networks</strong>—<br />

<strong>The</strong> Defacement <strong>of</strong> Enmity—Biopolitics and Protocol—Life -<br />

Resistance—<strong>The</strong> <strong>Exploit</strong>—Counterprotocol<br />

Part II. Edges 103<br />

<strong>The</strong> Datum <strong>of</strong> Cura I—<strong>The</strong> Datum <strong>of</strong> Cura II—Sovereignty and<br />

Biology I—Sovereignty and Biology II—Abandoning the Body<br />

Politic—<strong>The</strong> Ghost in the Network—Birth <strong>of</strong> the Algorithm—<br />

Political Animals—Sovereignty and the State <strong>of</strong> Emergency—<br />

Fork Bomb I—Epidemic and Endemic—Network Being—Good<br />

Viruses (SimSARS I)—Medical Surveillance (SimSARS II)—<br />

Feedback versus Interaction I—Feedback versus Interaction II—<br />

Rhetorics <strong>of</strong> Freedom—A Google Search for My Body—<br />

Divine Metabolism—Fork Bomb II—<strong>The</strong> Paranormal and the<br />

Pathological I—<strong>The</strong> Paranormal and the Pathological II—<br />

Universals <strong>of</strong> Identification—RFC001b: BmTP—Fork Bomb III—<br />

Unknown Unknowns—Codification, Not Reification—

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!