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City in the Cloud - Data on the Ground

By Damjan Kokalevski

City in the Cloud - Data on the Ground

By Damjan Kokalevski

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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 centers. While these data infrastructures shape global economies and politics, they truly do far more by profoundly impacting local communities, ecosystems, and labor conditions-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-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-ecological, social, and political-and opens up perspectives for rethinking digital infrastructures in the context of planetary resources, justice, and long-term responsibility.
Product details
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2025-10-16
Publication Date:
2025-10-16
Publisher:
ArchiTangle GmbH
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3966800381
ISBN13:
9783966800389
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1162 g
Height:
230 cm
Width:
301 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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