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  | | Laruelle(1st Edition) Against the Digital (Posthumanities) by Alexander R. Galloway Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2014 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-9213-2, ISBN: 0-8166-9213-0 ""Laruelle" is one of the first books in English to undertake in an extended critical survey of the work of the idiosyncratic French thinker FranCois Laruelle, the promulgator of non-standard philosophy. Laruelle, who was born in 1937, has recently gained widespread recognition, and Alexander R. Galloway suggests that readers may benefit from colliding Laruelle's concept of the One with its binary counterpart, the Zero, to explore more f ..." |
 | | Excommunication(Updated) Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation (TRIOS) by Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, Mckenzie Wark Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92522-6, ISBN: 0-226-92522-6 "Always connect--that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself--those messages that state: "There will be no more messages"? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our usual understanding of media and mediation on its head by arguing t ..." |
 | | The Interface Effect(1st Edition) by Alexander R. Galloway Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2012 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6253-4, ISBN: 0-7456-6253-6 "Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media. Indeed Western thought has long construed media as a grand choice between two kinds of interfaces. Following the optimistic path, media seamlessly interface self and other in a transparent a ..." |
 | | Introduction to Civil War(10th Edition) by Alexander R. Galloway, Jason E. Smith, Hedi El Kholti Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2010 by Semiotext(E) ISBN-13: 978-1-58435-086-6, ISBN: 1-58435-086-5 "Society no longer exists, at least in the sense of a differentiated whole. There is only a tangle of norms and mechanisms through which THEY hold together the scattered tatters of the global biopolitical fabric, through which THEY prevent its violent disintegration. Empire is the administrator of this desolation, the supreme manager of a process of listless implosion.--from ..." |
 | | The Exploit(1st Edition) A Theory of Networks (Volume 21) (Electronic Mediations) by Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5044-6, ISBN: 0-8166-5044-6 "“The Exploit is that rare thing: a book with a clear grasp of how networks operate that also understands the political implications of this emerging form of power. It cuts through the nonsense about how 'free' and 'democratic' networks supposedly are, and it offers a rich analysis of how network protocols create a new kind of control. Essential reading for all theorists, artists, activists, techheads, and hackers of the Net.” —McKenzie ..." |
 | | Gaming(1st Edition) Essays On Algorithmic Culture (Volume 18) (Electronic Mediations) by Alexander R. Galloway Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2006 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4851-1, ISBN: 0-8166-4851-4 "Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts focus on the earliest generation of text-based adventures ("Zork, " for example) and have little to say about such visually and conceptu ..." |
 | | Protocol(Updated) How Control Exists after Decentralization (Leonardo Book Series) by Alexander R. Galloway, Sean Cubitt, Roger F. Malina Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2004 by Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-57233-0, ISBN: 0-262-57233-8 "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 ..." |
 | | Excommunication(Updated) Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation (TRIOS) by Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, Mckenzie Wark Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92521-9, ISBN: 0-226-92521-8 "Always connect--that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself--those messages that state: "There will be no more messages"? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our usual understanding of media and mediation on its head by arguing t ..." |
 | | The Interface Effect(1st Edition) by Alexander R. Galloway Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2012 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6252-7, ISBN: 0-7456-6252-8 "Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media. Indeed Western thought has long construed media as a grand choice between two kinds of interfaces. Following the optimistic path, media seamlessly interface self and other in a transparent a ..." |
 | | Laruelle(1st Edition) Against the Digital (Posthumanities) by Alexander R. Galloway Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2014 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-9212-5, ISBN: 0-8166-9212-2 "Laruelle is one of the first books in English to undertake in an extended critical survey of the work of the idiosyncratic French thinker François Laruelle, the promulgator of non-standard philosophy. Laruelle, who was born in 1937, has recently gained widespread recognition, and Alexander R. Galloway suggests that readers may benefit from colliding Laruelle's concept of the One with its binary counterpart, the Zero, to explore more ful ..." |
 | | Protocol(1st Edition) How Control Exists after Decentralization (Leonardo Books) by Alexander R. Galloway Hardcover, 286 Pages, Published 2004 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-07247-2, ISBN: 0-262-07247-5 "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 ..." |
 | | Dark Nights of the Universe(1st Edition) (Novo Pan Klub) by Eugene Thacker, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Nicola Masciandaro, Alexander R. Galloway, François Laruelle, Aaron Metté, Franã§Ois Laruelle, Aaron Mettã Hardcover, 110 Pages, Published 2013 by [Name] Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-9840566-7-5, ISBN: 0-9840566-7-X "Preface to the Four Nights. Last Spring, members of the Cascadian School gathered for a discussion on abattoirs, illumination, and misanthropy. Our findings tended not to reveal anything we didn't already suspect, which is as good an excuse as any for reconvening, one year later. And so Daniel, Nicola, Alex, and myself have gathered here for four nights, to talk about mysticism. Our take-off point is a short text by François Laruelle en ..." |
 | | The Digital and Its Discontents (Electronic Mediations) by Evens, Aden, Galloway, Alexander R. Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2024 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-1631-2, ISBN: 1-5179-1631-3 |
 | | Laruelle Against the Digital by Alexander R. Galloway 304 Pages, Published 2014 by U Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4529-4288-9, ISBN: 1-4529-4288-9 "Laruelle, Principes de la non-philosophie, 227, 228. One particularly interesting demonstration of this method of non-philosophical cloning is Laruelle's short, experimental piece “Variations on a Theme in Heidegger.” Starting from one of the ..." |
 | | The Interface Effect by Alexander R. Galloway 200 Pages, Published 2013 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6292-3, ISBN: 0-7456-6292-7 "Goux, Jean-Joseph Gramsci, Antonio graph graph theory Greek philosophers Gromala, Diane Guantanamo Bay Guattari, Félix Guillory, John haecceity Half- Life (Valve Corporation) Hall, Stuart Hansen, Mark B. N. Haraway, Donna Hardt, Michael hardware Hayles, Katherine heads-up-display Hegel, G. W. F. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Susan Buck-Morss) hegemony Heidegger, Martin Hermes hermeneutics. See also interpretation; methodology ..." |
 | | Leper Creativity(1st Edition) Cyclonopedia Symposium by Eugene Thacker, Ed Keller, Nicola Masciandaro, Reza Negarestani, Zach Blas, Benjamin H. Bratton, Robin Mackay, Mckenzie Wark, Alisa Andrasek, Melanie Doherty, Anthony Sciscione, Kate Marshall, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Alexander R. Galloway, Dan Mellamphy, Ben Woodard, Lionel Maunz, Öykü Tekten Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2012 by Punctum Books ISBN-13: 978-0-615-60046-8, ISBN: 0-615-60046-8 "Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place on 11 March 2011 at The New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary ..." |
 | | The Exploit A Theory of Networks by Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker 196 Pages, Published 2007 by U Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4529-1332-2, ISBN: 1-4529-1332-3 "A Theory of Networks Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker. indeed matter quite significantly. But is it really the case that net- works matter less? And what kinds of networks—Postel's informatic networks, or the guerrilla networks of global terrorist groups? And what about sovereign powers who leverage the network form? Is the American government a network power? The United Nations ? Political discourse today generally slips into ..." |
 | | Gaming Essays on Algorithmic Culture by Alexander R. Galloway 143 Pages, Published 2006 by U Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4529-0868-7, ISBN: 1-4529-0868-0 "Essays on Algorithmic Culture Alexander R. Galloway. This strikes me as particularly attractive, for one may approach video games today as a type of beautifully undisturbed processing of con- temporary life, as yet unmarred by bourgeois exegeses of the format. But how may one critically approach these ... parser modules of a computer compiler—to describe a more contem- porary, informatic mode of cultural analysis and interpretation ..." |
 | | The Digital and Its Discontents by Evens, Aden/ Galloway, Alexander R. Softcover, Published 2024 by Univ Of Minnesota Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-1632-9, ISBN: 1-5179-1632-1 |
 | | Trios Ser. Excommunication : Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation by Eugene Thacker, Alexander R. Galloway, Mckenzie Wark 224 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92523-3, ISBN: 0-226-92523-4 "Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, McKenzie Wark. Each TRIOS book addresses an important theme in critical theory, philosophy, or cultural studies through three extended essays wrien in close collaboration by leading scholars. ALSO PUBLISHED IN THE SERIES Occupy: ree Inquiries in Disobedience w. j. t. mitchell, bernard e. harcourt, and michael ..." |
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