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book
Alexander R. Galloway
Protocol, how control exists after decentralization
<book> The MIT Press
ISBN 0262072475
... Speaking against the words of praise usually
used to describe the global network as liberating and libertarian, the
author tries to show how the powers and ideologies are creeping into
the processes used to continuously redefine the infrastructure, just
as they continuously modify the social structures. The homogeneousness
which results from the application of the technical documents are the
other side of the coin of a huge and effective infrastructure which
dictates the standards everybody must implement, dictating at the same
time the possible uses of the network. On the other side, challenging
the standards is what the hactivism practices of technical and political
innovation are based on. The author covers this aspect very well, giving
a meaning to this work, which otherwise would have been just a partially
proven speculation. The heart of the matter, in fact, is to become aware
of the political choices implied by the choice of an architecture and
of the hypertrophic techniques applied by the media saboteurs to create
new visions and meanings.
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