The exploit: a theory of networks
by ebrary, Inc, Galloway, Alexander R., Thacker, Eugene
The exploit: a theory of networks
by ebrary, Inc, Galloway, Alexander R., Thacker, Eugene
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…
"The network has become the core organizational structure for postmodern politics, culture, and life, replacing the modern era's hierarchical systems. From peer-to-peer file sharing and massive multiplayer online games to contagion vectors of digital or biological viruses and gl…
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 …
This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.
Leper creativity: cyclonopedia symposium
by Masciandaro, Nicola, Thacker, Eugene, Keller, Ed
"Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place on 11 March 2011 at The New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and des…