Vol. 18 The Nature of Data Centers

Culture Machine

Vol 18. The Nature of Data Centers

edited by Mél Hogan and Asta Vonderau

Editorial − Mél Hogan and Asta Vonderau

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

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

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

The Second Coming: Google and Internet Infrastructure – Vicki Mayer

An Apple a Day: Listening to Data Centre Site Selection through a Sonospheric Investigation − Matt Parker

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

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

Data Centres as Impermanent Infrastructures
− Julia Velkova

Storing Data, Infrastructuring the Air:
Thermocultures of the Cloud − Asta Vonderau

When Infrastructure Becomes Failure:
A material analysis of the limitations of
cloud gaming services − Sean RM Willett