1. Tactical media …those phenomena that are able to exploit flaws in protocological and proprietary command and control, not to sedstroy technology, but to sculpt protocaol and make it better suited to people’s real desires. - P 176

2. Tactical media Tactical media propel protocol into a state of hypertrophy, pushing it further, in better and more interesting ways. - P 176

3. Tactical media ‘a program that can ‘infect’ other programs by modifying them to include a, possibly evolved, version of itself.’ (Cohen) Computer viruses

4. Tactical media 1980s: AIDS paradigm Early on, computer viruses were identified with the AIDS epidemic. It is explicitly referenced in much of the literature on viruses, making AIDS both the primary biological metaphor and primary social anxiety informing the early discourse on computer viruses.  the virus itself is the epidemic.  computer viruses appeared in a moment in history where the integrity and security of bodies, both human and technological, was considered extremely important. Computer viruses

5. Tactical media 1990s: weaponized and related to the terrorism paradigm Later, the discourse on viruses turned toward weaponization and hence terrorism.  Here, the virus author is the epidemic. Computer viruses

6. Tactical media From self-replicating program created for technical exploration to weapon used by cyberterrorists. Computer viruses

7. Tactical media …computers are, and have always been, a technology of the female. - P 185 (Plant) Cyberfeminism: the complex relationship between women and machines. - P185 … deals with the negative space created within protocol through the injection of mutations, crashes, and viral code. With cyberfeminism, protocol becomes disturbed. Its course is altered and affected by the forces of randomness and corruption. - P 185 Cyberfeminism

8. Tactical media Bugs …a sort of super-protocological mutation that can, at times, propel technology in interesting new ways. - P 186 Cyberfeminism as bug Like a computer virus, cyberfeminism exists to mutate and transform these questions, guiding them in new directions within the protocological sphere. - P188 Cyberfeminism

9. Tactical media The universality of protocol can give feminism something that it never had at its disposal: the obliteration of the masculine from beginning to end. - P188 As protocol rises, patriarchy declines. - P 189 … cyberfeminists have never been anti-protocol, but rather use protocological machines as an integral part of their political action, art, and writing. - P 193 Cyberfeminism

10. Tactical media Diagrams/graphs/organizational designs: Bureaucracy, hierarchy, peer-to-peer, distribution, rhizome Conflict between different social structures: The rhizome is thought to be the solution to the tree, the wildcat strike the solution to the boss’s controll, Toyotism the solution to institutional bureaucracy, and so on. - P197 Conflicting Diagrams

11. Tactical media WTC Terrorists Massing of power and control distribution of power A tower cellular A center networked An icon modular A pillar nimble A hub small autonomous groups Conflicting Diagrams

12. Tactical media The category shift that defines the difference between state power and guerilla force shows that through a new diagram, guerillas, terrorists, and the like can gain foothold against their opposition. …this should be our catergory shift too, for anti-terror survival strategies will arise not from a renewed massing of power on the American side, but precisely from a distributed […]diagram. - P 204 Conflicting Diagrams

13. Tactical media The current global crisis is one between centralized, hierarchical powers and distributed, horizontal networks. P 204 What will happen when ‘the powers that be’ actually evolve into networked power? - P205 The goal [of tactical media] is … to push [technology] into a state of hypertrophy, further than it is meant to go. Then, in its injured, sore, and unguarded condition, technology may be sculpted anew into something better, something in closer agreement with the real wants and desires of its users. - P 206 Conflicting Diagrams