networks :: first thoughts
This Project is about, being built across and a part of ‘the Net’. The Net is wider than the Internet even when that is seen a s techno-social or political-economic form. ‘The Net’ is a power full structure and site of struggle. Its protocols and distributed/controlled form and practices must be addressed in ways that do not fall into utopian, egalitarian cyber-optimism nor conspiracy pessimism.
Rather, this convolute will seek to map these spaces, relations and practices as sites of struggle and seeing, open to exploitation 1. Mobile seeing and being seen as well as ‘2012′ and the ‘Edge of London’ are network phenomena and this convolute looks for ways of intervening in those relations.
- Galloway and Thacker, 2007 ↩
