Contents -- On Reading This Book -- Prolegomenon: "We're Tired of Trees" -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Appendix: Notes for a Liberated Computer Language -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K.

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