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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/qui-parle/article-pdf/30/1/1/930429/1morgan.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Networks of Belief An Introduction william morgan and kyra sutton Who says everything is a network? Everyone, it seems. In philosophy, Bruno Latour: ontology is a network. In literary studies, Franco Moretti: Hamlet is a network. In the military, Donald Rumsfeld: the battlefield is a network. . . . Thus I characterize the first assumption—“everything is a network”—as a kind of network fundamentalism. It claims that whatever exists in the world appears naturally in the form of a system, an ecology, an assemblage, in short, as a network. Alexander R. Galloway, “Network Pessimism” It no longer registers as a shock to hear proclamations of an emerg- ing age of networks, of algorithms, of artificial intelligence, of ma- chine learning, robotics, ubiquitous digital devices, or the cloud. From economics to genetics, computation is heralded as the skeleton key to a treasure trove of the world’s best-hidden secrets. Alexander R. Galloway’sabove-cited “network fundamental- ism,” we contend, reveals the extent to which these notions of net- works are bound up with questions of belief. But is the belief that qui parle Vol. 30, No. 1, June 2021 doi 10.1215/10418385-8955801 © 2021
Qui Parle – Duke University Press
Published: Jun 1, 2021
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