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Countering the Cloud - Thinking With and Against Data Infrastructures (Hardcover)
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Countering the Cloud - Thinking With and Against Data Infrastructures (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Focus on IT & Society
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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. 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.
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