connections
Connectivity, we may recall, often appears within network theories as a guiding logic for decentralizing (and destabilizing) structures. In contrast to prior systems which often situate manifestations of "control" in hierarchical frames, Alexander Galloway in Protocol examines connectivity as a mechanism for inclusion/exclusion (amongst other articulations of "control"). Like Galloway, Helms seems to be looking at logics of connectivity within (and beyond) comics to expand critical theory in productive ways.