{"product_id":"the-stack-10th-anniversary-edition-with-new-preface-by-the-author-isbn-9780262553919","title":"The Stack, 10th anniversary edition with new preface by the author","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA tenth anniversary edition of the comprehensive political philosophy of planetary-scale computation, with a new preface from the author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image? In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing on political philosophy, design theory, and computer science, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User.Series Foreword\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eCredits\u003cbr\u003eThe Stack Decade: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition\u003cbr\u003ePreface for the First Edition\u003cbr\u003eI The Models\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eThe Nomos of the Cloud\u003cbr\u003ePlatform and Stack, Model and Machine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII The Layers\u003cbr\u003eEarth Layer\u003cbr\u003eCloud Layer\u003cbr\u003eCity Layer\u003cbr\u003eAddress Layer\u003cbr\u003eInterface Layer\u003cbr\u003eUser Layer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII The Projects\u003cbr\u003eThe Stack to Come\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Stack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cb\u003eENDORSEMENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThe Stack\u003c\/i\u003e, Benjamin Bratton shows, with brilliant insight and imagination, what the world is coming to look like in an era of planetary-scale computing. He cuts through many received ideas about technology, globalization, and so forth and presents a fresh vision of the architecture of the world.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—McKenzie Wark, author of \u003ci\u003eMolecular Red\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Endlessly thought-provoking, this amazing book is both cognitive mapping and a projective geometry of the new dimensions of technological reality we live in.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of \u003ci\u003e2312\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Stack\u003c\/i\u003e is a major achievement. 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.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Natalie Jeremijenko, Associate Professor of Art, Computer Science, and Environmental Studies, New York University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Stack \u003c\/i\u003eimagines a design brief for the whole world while floating or falling through all the ever-efflorescent plasmas and atmospheres of digital information.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Keller Easterling, Professor, Yale School of Architecture; author of \u003ci\u003eExtrastatecraft\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBenjamin H. Bratton is Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Speculative Design at University of California, San Diego. He is also Director of Antikythera, a think-tank, journal, and book series exploring the future of planetary computation.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233747546341,"sku":"NP9780262553919","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262553919.jpg?v=1767741638","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-stack-10th-anniversary-edition-with-new-preface-by-the-author-isbn-9780262553919","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}