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The stack : on software and sovereignty / Benjamin H. Bratton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Software studiesPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262330183
  • 0262330180
  • 9780262330190
  • 0262330199
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: StackDDC classification:
  • 004 23
LOC classification:
  • QA76.5915 .B73 2015eb
NLM classification:
  • QA 76.59
Other classification:
  • 004.
Online resources:
Contents:
Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Credits; Preface; I The Models; Introduction; The Nomos of the Cloud; Platform and Stack, Model and Machine; II The Layers; Earth Layer; Cloud Layer; City Layer; Address Layer; Interface Layer; User Layer; III The Projects; The Stack to Come; The Black Stack; Glossary; Notes; Index.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Credits; Preface; I The Models; Introduction; The Nomos of the Cloud; Platform and Stack, Model and Machine; II The Layers; Earth Layer; Cloud Layer; City Layer; Address Layer; Interface Layer; User Layer; III The Projects; The Stack to Come; The Black Stack; Glossary; Notes; Index.

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.

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