Algorithm and Affective Politics of Molecular Traversal: The Free Software Movement

Hangwoo Lee ()
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Hangwoo Lee: Chungbuk National University

Chapter Chapter 6 in Affective Capitalism, 2023, pp 113-148 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents a new political theory of affect, focusing on the politics of cooperation and collaboration developed in the relational ontology and that of becoming and creation emphasized in the discussion of the virtuality of affect. It analyzes the confrontation between copyright regime and the free software movement surrounding algorithms through this new concept of affective politics. Specifically, this chapter explores the main areas of the free software movement, including “GNU GPL,” “DRM,” “HTML 5,” “Back Door,” “Secure Boot,” and “JavaScript,” from the perspective of molecular traversals. In so doing, it sheds light on how the affective politics of free algorithms advances biopolitics from below that challenges the biopower of copyright and proprietary software. In addition, this chapter examines how the molecular movement of free software, which resists the copyright and proprietary algorithm's non-conscious and pre-linguistic coordination of basic computing and networking environment, disrupts and transgresses the molar fault of proprietary algorithms, actualizing the potential for minority politics of becoming.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8174-8_6

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