The exploit : a theory of networks

VII, 196 S.

Electronic mediations. - Minneapolis [u.a.] : Univ. of Minnesota Press. - Vol. 21

Includes bibliographical references and index

On reading this book -- Proleogmenon: "we're tired of trees" -- A global dynamic -political atomism-unilateralism versus multilateralism-ubiquity and universality-occultism and cryptography-networks fighting networks-the new sovereignty -- 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 -- Rhetor