Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (Hardcover)
暫譯: 協議：去中心化後的控制如何存在 (精裝版)

Alexander R. Galloway

Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (Hardcover)
  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2004-04-01
  • 售價: $990
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 286
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262072475
  • ISBN-13: 9780262072472
  • 相關分類: Computer-networks

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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.

Alexander R. Galloway is Assistant Professor of Media Ecology at New York University.

 

Table of Contents:

Series Foreword ix
Foreword: Protocol Is as Protocol Does
Eugene Thacker		 xi
Preface xxiii
Acknowledgments xxv
I How Control Exists after Decentralization 1
Introduction 2
1 Physical Media 28
2 Form 54
3 Power 80
II Failures of Protocol 117
4 Institutionalization 118
III Protocol Futures 145
5 Hacking 146
6 Tactical Media 174
7 Internet Art 208
Conclusion 240
About the Author 247
Index 249

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**描述：**
互聯網是一個無限制的溝通和自由交換資訊的廣闊舞台，還是一個受規範、高度結構化的虛擬官僚體系？在《Protocol》中，亞歷山大·加洛韋（Alexander Galloway）主張，網路的根本原則是控制，而非自由，控制的力量存在於使網路連接（和斷開）成為可能的技術協議中。他通過將計算機視為基於技術語言（代碼）的文本媒介來進行這一論證。他認為，代碼可以像任何自然語言一樣，受到相同類型的文化和文學分析；計算機語言擁有自己的語法、文法、社群和文化。加洛韋不依賴於既有的理論方法，而是找到了一種新的方式來撰寫數位媒體，並借鑒了他在計算機程式設計和批判理論方面的背景。他在前言中寫道：「在處理像協議這樣複雜的社會技術主題時，跨學科是必要的。」

加洛韋首先檢視現存的協議類型，包括TCP/IP、DNS和HTML。接著，他探討了抵抗和顛覆的例子——駭客、病毒、網路女性主義、網路藝術——他將這些視為當前數位文化中正在發生的更大變革的象徵。《Protocol》是為非技術讀者撰寫的，作為對早期網路中廣泛存在的烏托邦願景的必要對照。

亞歷山大·R·加洛韋是紐約大學媒體生態學的助理教授。

**目錄：**
- 系列前言 ix
- 前言：協議如其所為 Eugene Thacker xi
- 前言 xxiii
- 致謝 xxv
- I 控制如何在去中心化後存在 1
- 介紹 2
- 1 實體媒介 28
- 2 形式 54
- 3 力量 80
- II 協議的失敗 117
- 4 制度化 118
- III 協議的未來 145
- 5 駭客 146
- 6 戰術媒體 174
- 7 網路藝術 208
- 結論 240
- 關於作者 247
- 索引 249

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