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The Data Center as Technological Wilderness − A.R.E. Taylor

PDF Abstract  A recurring feature in images and imaginations of the data center is the complete absence of human beings. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the data center industry,…

Managing Carbon and Data Flows: Fungible Forms of Mediation in the Cloud − Anne Pasek

PDF Abstract Microsoft’s transition to being both a cloud company and a carbon neutral company occurred at the same time and with common structuring logics. Cloud computing, carbon offsetting, and…

An Apple a day: Listening to data centre site selection through a sonospheric investigation − Matt Parker

PDF https://vimeo.com/182594845 Abstract This article considers media infrastructures as an interweaving between geology, space, data and affect through a series of artworks produced by the author using a research methodology…

The Second Coming: Google and Internet Infrastructure − Vicki Mayer

PDF Abstract This essay meditates on the role of the ephemeral as a source of media power for large and immobile hyperscale data centers. Taking field study notes and online…

Silicon Forest and Server Farms: The (Urban) Nature of Digital Capitalism in the Pacific Northwest − Anthony M. Levenda and Dillon Mahmoudi

PDF Abstract Access to inexpensive hydro-resources, such as hydro-electricity and water for cooling, cheap land, and proximity to undersea networks have created a spatial sweet spot for large data firms…

Emplacing Data Within Imperial Histories: Imagining Iceland as Data Centers’ ‘Natural’ Home − Alix Johnson

PDF Abstract In recent years, Iceland has emerged as a hotspot for international data center development. The island’s cool climate and abundance of renewable energy create what industry representatives have…

The Nature of Data Centers − Mél Hogan and Asta Vonderau

PDF ‘Engines of the cloud,’ ‘brain of the beast,’ ‘archives of digital capitalism,’ ‘factories of the 21st century’ – these, and similar metaphors, are frequently used to describe industrial scale…

Resurrection from Bunkers and Data Centers − Adam Fish and Bradley L. Garrett

PDF Abstract Bunkers are imposing physical objects that harbour surprising insights into how humans attempt to control time. This brief article investigates how concepts of time are structured through the…

Thermal Violence: Heat Rays, Sweatboxes and the Politics of Exposure − Nicole Starosielski

PDF Abstract This article tracks the history of the sweatbox as a racialized technology of thermal violence. Through an analysis of the sweatbox’s use on the plantations and prisons of…

Hot and Cold Techniques in the Longue Durée of Media − Erhard Schüttpelz

PDF In 1927, Marcel Mauss gave his definite answer to Henri Bergson’s concept of ‘homo faber’: Homo faber, says M. Bergson. This formula signifies only the obvious or too much…

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Vol. 20 (2021): Machine Intelligences

Vol. 19 (2020): Media Populism

Vol. 18 (2019): The Nature of Data Centers

Vol. 17 (2018): Thermal Objects

Vol. 16 (2016): Drone Cultures

Vol. 15 (2014): Viva Culture Machine! Latin American Mediations

Vol. 14 (2013): Platform Politics

Vol. 13 (2012): Paying Attention

Vol. 12 (2011): The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing

Vol. 11 (2010): Creative Media

Vol. 10 (2009): Pirate Philosophy

Vol. 9 (2007): Recordings

Vol. 8 (2006): Community

Vol. 7 (2005): Biopolitics

Vol. 6 (2004): Deconstruction is/in Cultural Studies

Vol. 5 (2003): The E-Issue

Vol. 4 (2002): The Ethico-Political Issue

Vol. 3 (2001): Virologies: Culture and Contamination

Vol. 2 (2000): The University Culture Machine

Vol. 1 (1999): Taking Risks With The Future

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