1st Edition
Countering the Cloud Thinking With and Against Data Infrastructures
By Luke Munn
Copyright 2023
98 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
98 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
98 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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.
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1. Epistemic Infrastructure; 2. Fast & Slow Knowledge; 3. Efficiency & Waste; 4. Resilience & Failure; 5. Epilogue: Alternative Infrastructure; Acknowledgements; Index
Biography
Luke Munn is a media studies scholar based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand. His research investigates the sociocultural impacts of digital cultures and their broader intersections with race, politics, and the environment. He is the author of Unmaking the Algorithm, Logic of Feeling, and Automation is a Myth.
