Alexander R. Galloway
Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and com- puter programmer. He is author of several booksondigitalmediaandcriticaltheory,in- cluding most recently ?Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age? (Verso, 2021). Since 2001 he has worked with RSG on Carnivore, Kriegspiel and other software projects.
In Conversation
Alexander Galloway with Andrew Woolbright
Protocol is about many things, but maybe most directly about the history of control and the shift from disciplinary societies to societies of control. Can you explain what led you to want to write the book? And those historical differences, which I think are incredibly important?
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