User:Darija Medic/protocol

Alexander Galloway

Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (Introduction) (2006) The MIT Press.

The main argue in this introduction is that protocol is the way technological control exists after decentralization.
Loking into the difference between tcp-ip and dns servers-distributed vs rigid
Deleuze's map for the distributed network
the position of multiple central hosts in the distributed network differing it from a centralized one.
the possibility of communication between all nodes, where protocol lets them communicate.
He sees protocol in Foucault's approach to biopolitics.
The shift between modern societies and control societies are governed by protocol, pattern in place of meaning.
Non protological and non-distributed media film and video vs the digital computer.
He offers an idea of progress from one form of control to the other.