Is 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 technological language, code. Code, he argues, can be subject to the same kind of cultural and literary analysis as any natural language; computer languages have their own syntax, grammar, communities, and cultures. Instead of relying on established theoretical approaches, Galloway finds a new way to write about digital media, drawing on his backgrounds in computer programming and critical theory. "Discipline-hopping is a necessity when it comes to complicated socio-technical topics like protocol," he writes in the preface.
Galloway begins by examining the types of protocols that exist, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTML. He then looks at examples of resistance and subversion—hackers, viruses, cyberfeminism, Internet art—which he views as emblematic of the larger transformations now taking place within digital culture. Written for a nontechnical audience, Protocol serves as a necessary counterpoint to the wildly utopian visions of the Net that were so widespread in earlier days.
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其實讀的是他的French theory today。
评分其實讀的是他的French theory today。
评分其實讀的是他的French theory today。
评分很少讀學術書有這種手不釋捲的感覺，Galloway把一個非常技術性的概念用neo marxism和文化理論的角度分析，很有洞見，不愧是我的學術偶像。
评分還蠻奇怪的，藉鑒瞭一堆Deleuze/Foucault/critical theory的理論來試圖論證作為無集權的protocol，是如何某種程度比集權更可怕，因為無所不在的power。但是power到底在哪兒，protocol的nature到底是什麼，galloway似乎因為批判理論背景預設瞭很多。斯諾登事件似乎是證明protocol本可以是中立自由的，權力隻存在於protocol背後的使用，而不是protocol本身。不過如果藉鑒olia lialina的觀點，不斷更新的protocol已經增加瞭一種幾乎intrinsic的asymmetry。
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