Galloway and Thacker 2007

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protocols: "a technology that regulates flow, directs netspace, codes relationships, and connects lifeforms" (30)

3 kinds of networks: centralized (pyramidal, hierarchical), decentralized (backbone with radiating peripheries), distributed (no backbone or center) (32-3)

disciplinary societies (Foucault) vs. control societies (Deleuze) (35)

"Control is not simply manipulation, but rather modulation." (35)
"Networks are, in this sense, the horizon of control." (36)

individuation and networks (37-8) -- "really a problem of establishing the very conditions in which a network can exist at all" (38) -- i.e. a problem of sovereignty