![]() ![]() The Stack itself may or may not exist, but it’s left everything that came before it in a state of rubble. Benjamin Bratton’s The Stack breaks more new ground than a carpet bombing. “This political geography of computation is a strange, marvelous text of great conceptual beauty. Keller Easterling, Professor, Yale School of Architecture author of Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space “The Stack imagines a design brief for the whole world while floating or falling through all the ever-efflorescent plasmas and atmospheres of digital information.” Natalie Jeremijenko, Associate Professor of Art, Computer Science, and Environmental Studies, New York University It is more than just philosophy of technology, software studies, or design criticism it analyzes and guides our thinking in a baffling Anthropocenic era when computation works at the planetary scale and constitutes governance.” Immortal Longings Chloe Gong available now: This retelling of Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra already has BookTok in a fantasy-laden tizzy. “Endlessly thought-provoking, this amazing book is both cognitive mapping and a projective geometry of the new dimensions of technological reality we live in.” This document is a conceptual and architectural review of the Dell Integrated system for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. McKenzie Wark, author of Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene He cuts through many received ideas about technology, globalization, and so forth and presents a fresh vision of the architecture of the world.” “In The Stack, Benjamin Bratton shows, with brilliant insight and imagination, what the world is coming to look like in an era of planetary-scale computing. Interweaving the continental, urban, and perceptual scales, it shows how we can better build, dwell within, communicate with, and govern our worlds. The Stack is an interdisciplinary design brief for a new geopolitics that works with and for planetary-scale computation. This model, informed by the logic of the multilayered structure of protocol “stacks,” in which network technologies operate within a modular and vertical order, offers of a comprehensive image of our emerging infrastructure and a platform for its ongoing reinvention. Each is mapped on its own terms and understood as a component within the larger whole built from hard and soft systems intermingling-not only computational forms but also social, human, and physical forces. In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing on political philosophy, architectural theory, and software studies, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User. We are inside The Stack and it is inside of us. Bratton proposes that these different genres of computation-smart grids, cloud plaforms, mobile apps, smart cities, the Internet of Things, automation- can be seen not as so many species evolving on their own, but as forming a coherent whole: an accidental megastructure called The Stack that is both a computational apparatus and a new governing architecture. In The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, Benjamin H. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image? Readers can fully appreciate every item Luna employs to reach her goal, and see how her achievement stacks up against her diminutive, footed-pajama stature.Order 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 addressing systems from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self-quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors, algorithms, and robots. “Roeder’s mixed-media art combines a miniaturist’s precision with a playful sense of scale and perspective. Rhyming verse gives this story a lulling, peaceful effect, but viewers will have a lot to watch for in background details.” - BCCB “This fanciful picture book has a charming nighttime setting made of intricate mixed-media art, and Roeder’s night sky is resplendent with multi-colored stars and a glowing crescent moon. The text and art take on a momentum and direction, moving readers along, up, and down, and all around.” - School Library Journal, starred review From the creator of The Box Turtle comes a clever and stunningly illustrated bedtime story about doing (and building) whatever it takes to reach for the. Using shifting perspective in the illustrations to emphasize just how high Luna has to climb, the colorful artwork captures the creativity and movement of her tossing funny, unexpected objects onto the stack. ★ ”Roeder has written and illustrated a fun story about a young girl’s fear of the dark-and how she uses her imagination to soothe her fear. ![]()
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