The Exploit by Alexander R. Galloway
A Theory of Networks
This book offers a compact theoretical account of how contemporary networks operate as sites of power and vulnerability, arguing that protocols and technical architectures shape political capacities and social relations; an "exploit" is presented as both a method and a moment that exposes those underlying rules and inequalities. Combining conceptual analysis with close attention to technological practice, it traces how control, resistance, and visibility are produced through network design and operation, and suggests that critical engagement must attend as much to code and infrastructure as to rhetoric and law. Ultimately it reframes political questions about freedom, privacy, and agency in terms of the affordances and limits built into networked systems, and it proposes strategies for understanding and intervening in them.
- Published
- 2007
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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