"The Exploit" is that rare thing: a book with a clear grasp of how
networks operate that also understands the political implications
of this emerging form of power. It cuts through the nonsense about
how 'free' and 'democratic' networks supposedly are, and it offers
a rich analysis of how network protocols create a new kind of
control. Essential reading for all theorists, artists, activists,
techheads, and hackers of the Net." --McKenzie Wark, author of A
Hacker Manifesto"
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 global affiliations of terrorist
organizations, the network form has become so invasive that nearly
every aspect of contemporary society can be located within it.
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 to hierarchy.
Alexander R. Galloway is associate professor of culture and
communications at New York University and theauthor of Gaming:
Essays on Algorithmic Culture" (Minnesota, 2006) and Protocol: How
Control Exists after Decentralization,"
Eugene Thacker is associate professor of new media at the Georgia
Institute of Technology and the author of Biomedia" (Minnesota,
2004) and The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture,"
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