City in the Cloud - Data on the Ground - The Architecture of Data

This book investigates the hidden physical infrastructures behind the digital world. Data may appear immaterial, but it relies on extensive global networks: the extraction of raw materials, the deployment of thousands of undersea cables, and an exponentially growing number of energy-intensive data centers. While these data infrastructures shape global economies and politics, they truly do far more by profoundly impacting local communities, ecosystems, and labor conditions-realms so often rooted in (neo)colonial structures of exploitation. The contributions in this volume call for greater transparency, critical awareness, and care toward the material foundations of the data economy-as essential conditions for more equitable and accountable digital futures. Bringing together voices from architecture, media studies, technology, art, and political theory, City in the Cloud - Data on the Ground explores the elemental, spatial, and temporal dimensions of the architecture of data. The volume maps the costs of the data economy-ecological, social, and political-and opens up perspectives for rethinking digital infrastructures in the context of planetary resources, justice, and long-term responsibility.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Cara Hähl-Pfeifer (Editore), Damjan Kokalevski (Editore), Andres Lepik (Editore)
• Editore: Architangle
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.10.2025
• EAN: 9783966800389
• ISBN: 978-3-96680-038-9
• Pagine: 208
• Dimensioni: 235 mm x 24 mm x 310 mm
• Peso: 1159 g
• Illustrazioni: Fotografien
• Categorie: Saggistica > Arte, letteratura > Architettura; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura