Countering the cloud: thinking with and against data infrastructures

How do cables and data centers think? This book investigates how information infrastructures enact particular forms of knowledge. It juxtaposes the pervasive logics of speed, efficiency, and resilience with more communal and ecological ways of thinking and being, turning technical "solutions&qu...

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1. Verfasser: Munn, Luke (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London Routledge 2023
Schriftenreihe:Routledge Focus on IT & Society
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Zusammenfassung:How do cables and data centers think? This book investigates how information infrastructures enact particular forms of knowledge. It juxtaposes the pervasive logics of speed, efficiency, and resilience with more communal and ecological ways of thinking and being, turning technical "solutions" back into open questions about what society wants and what infrastructures should do.Moving from data centers in Hong Kong to undersea cables in Singapore and server clusters in China, Munn combines rich empirical material with insights drawn from media and cultural studies, sociology, and philosophy. This critical analysis stresses that infrastructures are not just technical but deeply epistemological, privileging some actions and actors while sidelining others.This innovative exploration of the values and visions at the heart of our technologies will interest students, scholars, and researchers in the areas of communication studies, digital media, technology studies, sociology, philosophy of technology, information studies, and geography
Beschreibung:1. Epistemic Infrastructure; 2. Fast & Slow Knowledge; 3. Efficiency & Waste; 4. Resilience & Failure; 5. Epilogue: Alternative Infrastructure; Acknowledgements; Index
Beschreibung:92 Seiten Illustrationen 222 gr
ISBN:9781032374154
9781032376424

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