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City in the Cloud - Data on the Ground
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- Book Synopsis
- This book investigates the hidden physical infrastructures behind the digital world. Data may appear immaterial, but it relies on extensive global networks: the extraction of raw materials, the deployment of thousands of undersea cables, and an exponentially growing number of energy-intensive data centres. While these data infrastructures shape global economies and politics, they truly do far more by profoundly impacting local communities, ecosystems, and labour conditions**x2014;realms so often rooted in (neo)colonial structures of exploitation. The contributions in this volume call for greater transparency, critical awareness, and care toward the material foundations of the data economy**x2014;as essential conditions for more equitable and accountable digital futures. Bringing together voices from architecture, media studies, technology, art, and political theory, City in the Cloud - Data on the Ground explores the elemental, spatial, and temporal dimensions of the architecture of data. The volume maps the costs of the data economy**x2014;ecological, social, and political**x2014;and opens up perspectives for rethinking digital infrastructures in the context of planetary resources, justice, and long-term responsibility.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9783966800389
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- ArchiTangle, (31 October 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 300 x 230 mm
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