| Series |
Electronic mediations ; v. 21
Electronic mediations v. 21. ^A423082
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-180) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007014964 |
| ISBN | 9780816650439 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816650438 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780816650446 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816650446 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
