Protocol
How Control Exists after Decentralization
$53.85
- Paperback
286 pages
- Release Date
17 February 2006
Summary
How Control Exists after DecentralizationIs the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly structured virtual bureaucracy? In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom, and that the controlling power lies in the technical protocols that make network connections (and disconnections) possible. He does this by treating the computer as a textual medium that is based on a techn…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262572330 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262572338 |
| Author: | Alexander R. Galloway |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 286 |
| Release Date: | 17 February 2006 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Leonardo Book Series |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
–Tilman Baumg’rtel, media critic, author of “net.art” and “net.art 2.0–New Material towards Net Art”
An engaging methodological hybrid of the Frankfurt School and UNIX for Dummies…. Galloway brings the uncool question of morality back into critical thinking.
– Ed Halter * The Village Voice *Galloway is one of the very few people who are equally well versed in poststructuralist cultural theory and computer programming.
– Steven Shaviro * The Pinocchio Theory Weblog *Protocol…is a book on computer science written by someone who’s not a computer scientist, and that’s a good thing.
– Gary Singh * Metro *About The Author
Alexander R. Galloway
Alexander R. Galloway is Assistant Professor of Media Ecology at New York University.
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