发表于2024-12-25
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图书标签: Alex_Galloway 媒介史 programming 治理术 theory TECHNOLOGY
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.
很少读学术书有这种手不释卷的感觉,Galloway把一个非常技术性的概念用neo marxism和文化理论的角度分析,很有洞见,不愧是我的学术偶像。
评分很少读学术书有这种手不释卷的感觉,Galloway把一个非常技术性的概念用neo marxism和文化理论的角度分析,很有洞见,不愧是我的学术偶像。
评分其实读的是他的French theory today。
评分很少读学术书有这种手不释卷的感觉,Galloway把一个非常技术性的概念用neo marxism和文化理论的角度分析,很有洞见,不愧是我的学术偶像。
评分还蛮奇怪的,借鉴了一堆Deleuze/Foucault/critical theory的理论来试图论证作为无集权的protocol,是如何某种程度比集权更可怕,因为无所不在的power。但是power到底在哪儿,protocol的nature到底是什么,galloway似乎因为批判理论背景预设了很多。斯诺登事件似乎是证明protocol本可以是中立自由的,权力只存在于protocol背后的使用,而不是protocol本身。不过如果借鉴olia lialina的观点,不断更新的protocol已经增加了一种几乎intrinsic的asymmetry。
Protocol 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书