User:Selena Savic/OpenEvent/Bibliography
first week: Armin Medosch. Society in Ad-Hoc Mode
second week: Cox, Geoff. Antisocial Applications: Notes in support of antisocial not-working
Like Slavoj Zizek demands at the beginning of his PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA 'I want the third pill', Geoff Cox pleads for a choice beyond Facebook vs. Hatebook, beyond the mere participation.
Describing the Social, Networking and Notworking, how a network can define power and how are power relations reflected in a network, he asks for rethinking the mid 60's concepts of refusal which would put a worknet parallel to a network and notworking against networking...
third week: Alexander R. Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization
Galloway describes the "diagram of distribution", comparing the historical development of social and control structures identified by Foucault and Deleuze but also Fridrich Kittler, Ernst Mandel, Frederic Jameson, Manuel Castells, Hardt and Negri... He draws a line of his interest around the body of technology, the "real machines that live in the society", leaving epistemology and questions of the mind outside.
The control is not simply decentralized, it is distributed, it sits on protocols that allow for networks to exist by defining a shared language, a shared protocol.
fourth week: Michael Hardt, Hail the Multitudes
Multitude is a name Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt use to describe a form of social organization which preserves freedom and autonomy of the people collaborating within it. In the attempt to define an alternative model to the centralized command structures, Hardt identifies the emerging of the collaborative network model, with it's immaterial production. He established a clear and causal relation between the political organization and it's corresponding economic model, expecting this new form - the multitude to develop as the primary and most powerful form of political organization.
fifth week: Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter, Ten Theses on Non-Democratic Electronics: Organized Networks Updated
In this text written in a Manifesto style, Lovink and Rossiter are revisiting some key notions relevant for describing the organization of networks. They explain the model of diversion, structureless organization, participatory revolution, the governance and the border of networks...After introducing some brave thoughts (like the end of democratization of the media and the users as "citizens" of the media), they leave the point open, perhaps because they are themselves unsure about it.
hierarchical tree of the DNS system and the Achilles heel metaphor
control of existence, not content
Protocol's native landscape is the distributed network. Shared protocols are what defines the landscape of the network - who is connected to whom. Without a shared protocol there is no network.
How to explain control; historical overview of development: Foucault and then Deleuze, instruments of power (violence > bureaucracy > ) and technology (mechanical > thermodynamic > information)
Internet came to existence in response to the Soviet Sputnik launch and other fears connected to the Cold War....
The principle of PACKET SWITCHING
The development of the physical structure of the network and the development of the protocol - 1980s, TCP/IP
WHAT IS PROTOCOL? Historical development from the behavioral to its logical implications - a technique of achieving voluntary regulation within a contingent environment. at the level of coding; highly formal; they encapsulate information insida a technically defined wrapper; a distributed management system that allows control to exist within a heterogeneous material milieu.
Paul Garrin on Internet Tyranny
TACTICAL MEDIA:
BIG BROTHER IS IN YOUR POCKET -- BUT WAIT! BIG BROTHER IS YOUR SHIRT!
New Technology, New Means of Tracking and Surveillance are Upon Us, by Paul Garrin