The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton

Book Overview

A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack--an accidental megastructure--is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026202957X
• ISBN13: 9780262029575
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher