THE LIMITS OF NETWORKING
A reply to Lovink and Schneider's Notes on the State of Networking
by Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker
The question we aim to explore here is: what is the principle of political
organization or control that stitches a network together? Writers like
Michael Hardt
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Would we expect the most-read bloggers to be the most
original thinkers? Although some of the top bloggers
are leading thinkers in their fields (Juan Cole comes
to mind http://www.juancole.com ), in an era of
information overload a blog whose viewpoint you
identify with and trust serves more as an
(posted with permission of the author /geert)
From: Ine Poppe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A story i wrote for my friends:
The Reina Sophia Museum ( with the great Picasso's) had bought expensive
flights for us, which didn't offer you a meal - in economy class: glass
water 2 euro's-, so we arrived pretty
Quoting Alex Galloway and Eugene Thacker:
Protocol abounds in techno-culture. It is a totalizing control apparatus
that guides both the technical and political formation of computer
networks, biological systems and other media.
[...]
The problem with the word protocol seems to me that
From Rob Kaye, freelance Mayhem and Chaos Coordinator and ubergeek
behind the Musicbrainz database. (Those pie recipes sound pretty tasty ;-)
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2004/03/05/file_share.html
by Robert Kaye
03/05/2004
Editor's note: At the recent O'Reilly Emerging Technology
Nice to see some sense about Darknets.
I also have a lot of respect for his position re Tribes and Elders
controlling the extent to which tribes interlink. (This is much more
widely relevant than the simple case of file sharing. It's essential for
community software).
However what wasn't made
