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Aside from Galloway’s discussion of TCP/IP and DNS, the explorations of the software object has not really addressed the specificity of protocol. Although Joel Slayton, in the forward to Fuller’s Media Ecologies, talks of “the limits and excess of protocol”{Fuller 2007@ix} as a theme of the text, the book uses artworks and pirate radio as …

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Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson’s account of “anomalous objects”{%Parikka 2009a} provides a similar bringing together of the three themes. Here the digital objects under investigation are addressed through their relations, as process more than essence and as harbouring a potential that media archaeology serves to trace. Parikka and Sampson use the term ‘topology’ to …

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Tomorrow’s the first of September and by my reckoning that’s one year until I’m supposed to have done IT. With that in mind and in the dimming afterglow of a month in France, a new plan: Firstly, a change in title. “The Olympic Arcades Project” has served well but now: “JPEG: a quadruple object” seems …

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