The Exploit A Theory of Networks |
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| Author:
| Galloway, Alexander R.
Thacker, Eugene |
| Series title: | Electronic Mediations Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-5044-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2007 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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Borrowing their title from the hacker term for a program that takes advantage of a flaw in a network system, Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker challenge the widespread assumption that networks are inherently egalitarian. Instead, they contend that there exist new modes of control entirely native to networks, modes that are at once highly centralized and dispersed, corporate and subversive.In this provocative book-length essay, Galloway and Thacker argue that a whole new...
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Borrowing their title from the hacker term for a program that takes advantage of a flaw in a network system, Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker challenge the widespread assumption that networks are inherently egalitarian. Instead, they contend that there exist new modes of control entirely native to networks, modes that are at once highly centralized and dispersed, corporate and subversive.In this provocative book-length essay, Galloway and Thacker argue that a whole new topology must be invented to resist and reshape the network form, one that is as asymmetrical in relationship to networks as the network is in relation tohierarchy.