The MIT Press, ISBN 0262072475 As for the structure determines the content? In the case of network protocols, they determine the form and structure, but are notoriously indifferent to the contents, at least apparently. Alexander Galloway, a former director of Rhizome content, and a member of the team that developed the software RSG artistic Carnivore, is now Professor of Media Ecology at NYU and in this text supports the thesis that the communication protocols (such as tcp-ip to example), rather than liberate the opportunities for interaction will implement control, through a rhizome which becomes the supporting architecture. Certainly bucking the hosannas that have accompanied the development of the network as liberating and libertarian, he attempts to show how power relations and ideologies gain a foothold especially in the processes that lead to continuous redefinition of the infrastructure, reminiscent of what happens always with the power and the continuous changes that it makes to social structures. The homogeneity induced by technical principles is the other side of the coin of huge infrastructure up and running, which imposes standards are essential, shaping in fact also the modes of expression that will materialize. On the other hand, however, the unhinging of the same standard is the basis of the practice of technical innovation and dialectic of hacktivists. And here the author redeems a full sense that otherwise would have remained in a speculation only partially substantiated. The crux of the problem, in fact, is to become aware of the political choices that will inevitably be carried out as choices, while democratic, architectures, but also pay close attention to the techniques that the sappers hypertrophic media apply a rotation mutant, always ready to open new glimpses of sense.