Author:
Hu, Tung-Hui, 1978-
Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
Descriptionxxix, 209 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Note:The shape of the network. The graft ; "Strange and unusual fits," 1961 ; Truckstop networks (Portola Valley, California) -- Time-sharing and virtualization. Intimacies of the user : from the stolen look to stolen time ; "The Victorians built magnificent drains" : waste, privacy, and the cloud ; Cloud cartography -- Interlude : Learning from Santa Clara -- Data centers and data bunkers. "The internet must be defended!" ; Bunker archeology ; The melancholy of new media -- Seeing the cloud of data. War as big data ; "The other night sky" : seeing and counterseeing ; Necropolitics.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index.
