The Stack by Bratton, Benjamin H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication Table of Contents Series Foreword Acknowledgments Credits Preface I The Models

Introduction

1. A New Architecture? 2. An Accidental Megastructure 3. Blur and Accident

The Nomos of the Cloud

4. Dividing Sovereignty 5. Over (and under) the Line 6. Land/Sea/Air/Cloud 7. The Nomos of the Cloud? 8. A Google Grossraum?

Platform and Stack, Model and Machine

9. Platforms 10. How Platforms Work 11. Stack as Model 12. Stack as Political Machine 13. Stacks That Were and Might Have Been 14. The Stack We Have 15. The Layers of The Stack

II The Layers

Earth Layer

16. Discovering or Inventing Computation? 17. Digestion 18. Geo-graphy and Geoaesthetics 19. From Global Surface to Planetary Skin 20. Smart Grid: Ouroboros 21. Sensing and Sovereignty; Polities of Supply and Effect 22. Designing for versus Designing with Emergencies 23. Designing the Earth Layer

Cloud Layer

24. Platform Geography 25. The First Sino-Google War of 2009 26. Cloud Infrastructure 27. Cloud Polis 28. Platform Wars 29. Facebook 30. Apple 31. Amazon 32. Google 33. Future Cloud Polis and Platforms

City Layer

34. Reversible Grids 35. City as Layer 36. Exposure and Control 37. Force Finding Function Finding Form 38. Envelope and Apparatus 39. Designing for Mixed Envelopes, Mixed Programs 40. Programs, Subjects, and Zombie Jurisdictions 41. Megastructure and Utopia 42. Platform Cities

Address Layer

43. Scale, Scope, and Structure 44. Deep Address 45. Objects in The Stack 46. Addressability and Technique 47. IPv6 48. Communication and Composition 49. Absolute Incommunication 50. Distortion and Genesis

Interface Layer

User Layer

58. Origins of the User 59. Finding the Universal User 60. Quantified Self and Its Mirror 61. Trace and Frame 62. Maximum User 63. Death of the User 64. Animal User 65. AI User 66. Machine User 67. From User-Centered Design to the Design of the User

III The Projects

The Stack to Come

The Black Stack

75. Angelus Novus Is Gone 76. The Stack and Its Others 77. Concluding Remarks on Design and The Black Stack

Glossary Index