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Beschreibung
Why The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times.

A tenth anniversary edition of the comprehensive political philosophy of planetary-scale computation, with a new preface from the author.


What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self-quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors, algorithms, and robots. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image? In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing on political philosophy, design theory, and computer science, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User.
Why The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times.

A tenth anniversary edition of the comprehensive political philosophy of planetary-scale computation, with a new preface from the author.


What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self-quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors, algorithms, and robots. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image? In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing on political philosophy, design theory, and computer science, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User.
Über den Autor
Benjamin H. Bratton
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Credits
The Stack Decade: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition
Preface for the First Edition
I The Models
Introduction
The Nomos of the Cloud
Platform and Stack, Model and Machine

II The Layers
Earth Layer
Cloud Layer
City Layer
Address Layer
Interface Layer
User Layer

III The Projects
The Stack to Come
The Black Stack

Glossary
Notes
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780262553919
ISBN-10: 0262553910
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bratton, Benjamin H.
Hersteller: MIT Press Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 226 x 174 x 43 mm
Von/Mit: Benjamin H. Bratton
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.02.2026
Gewicht: 0,662 kg
Artikel-ID: 134547287

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