ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in this book. The book concerns how models of circulation within a network-organized culture are built from and around norms. Queer theory has provided some of the fundamental critical resources for this analysis, both conceptually and methodologically. A culture of networks which values and even requires circulation is also partly a space contained by those norms, even if circulation may lead us to question their legitimacy. Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker argue that modern geopolitical relations are characterized by 'symmetrical political conflicts waged by centralized power blocs' as well as by 'asymmetrical political conflicts in which networked actors struggle against centralized powers'. Manning, a soldier in the US Army, was convicted in July 2013 for leaking a large number of classified documents, and was sentenced a month later to thirty-five years in prison.
