Index

On reading this book                                                 vii
Proleogmenon: "we're tired of trees"                                   1
  Provisional response 1: political atomism (the Nietzschean 
  argument) -- Provisional response 2: unilateralism versus 
  multilateralism (the Foucauldian argument) -- Provisional 
  response 3: ubiquity and universality (the Determinist 
  argument) -- Provisional response 4: occultism and 
  cryptography (the Nominalist argument)

Part I. Nodes                                                         23
  Technology (or theory) -- Theory (or technology) -- Protocol 
  in computer networks -- Protocol in biological networks --
  An encoded life -- Toward a political ontology of networks --
  The defacement of enmity -- Biopolitics and protocol -- Life-
  Resistance -- The exploit -- Counterprotocol

Part II. Edges                                                       103
  The datum of cura I -- The datum of cura II -- Sovereignty and 
  biology I -- Sovereignty and biology II -- Abandoning the body 
  politic -- The ghost in the network -- Birth of the algorithm --
  Political animals -- Sovereignty and the state of emergency --
  Fork bomb I -- Epidemic and endemic -- Network being -- Good 
  viruses (simSARS I) -- Medical surveillance (simSARS II) --
  Feedback versus interaction I -- Feedback versus interaction II --
  Rhetorics of freedom -- A Google search for my body --
  Divine metabolism --  Fork bomb II -- The paranormal and the 
  pathological I -- The paranormal and the pathological II --
  Universals of identification -- RFC001b: BMTP -- Fork bomb III --
  Unknown unknowns -- Codification, not reification --
  Tactics of nonexistence -- Disappearance; or, I've seen it 
  all before -- Stop motion -- Pure metal -- The hypertrophy of 
  matter (Four Definitions and One Axiom) -- The user and the 
  programmer -- Fork bomb IV -- Interface -- There is no 
  content -- Trash, junk, spam

Coda: bits and atoms                                                149
Appendix: Notes for a liberated computer language                   159
Notes                                                               167
Index                                                               183