Protocol : How Control Exists After Decentralization (9780262072472)

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.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 286 pages
• Dimensions 178 x 229 x 15mm | 735g
• Publication date 05 Mar 2004
• Publisher MIT Press Ltd
• Imprint MIT Press
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass., United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 21
• ISBN10 0262072475
• ISBN13 9780262072472

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Another Place You've Never Been : A Novel (9781640090071)

Long-listed for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "A wonderful debut . . . Undeniably moving and emotionally true." --Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) Most of us have experienced what it's like to know what someone is going to say right before they say it. Or perhaps you have been shocked by the irrefutable phenomena of coincidence, when your life intersects with another's in the most unlikely way. In gripping prose marked by stark simplicity, Another Place You've Never Been by debut novelist Rebecca Kauffman explores the intersection of human experience amidst the minutiae of everyday life.

In her mid-thirties and still living in her hometown Buffalo, NY, Tracy spends most days at the restaurant where she works as a hostess, despite her aspirations of a career that would make use of her creative talents. Tracy's life is explored not only though her own personal point of view, but also through the viewpoints of other characters, wherein Tracy may only make a peripheral appearance or even emerge at different periods in her life.

This wonderful novel hails the emotional complexity and narrative scope of A Visit from the Goon Squad, and resonates with the strong mystical nature of Swamplandia. At its core, Another Place You've Never Been is a broad investigation of such bold ideas as the possibility that any person, at any time, in any place, could find themselves shivering in the presence of great and ancient forces; and the notion that love is perhaps "far less voluntary" than we might believe it to be.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 256 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 210 x 22.86mm | 249.48g
• Publication date 12 Sep 2017
• Publisher COUNTERPOINT
• Publication City/Country Berkeley, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• ISBN10 164009007X
• ISBN13 9781640090071
• Bestsellers rank 33,831

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