
City in the Cloud - Data on the Ground
The Architecture of Data
ArchiTangle (Publisher)
Published on 16. October 2025
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-3-96680-038-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
180
Fotografien
Dimensions
Height: 301 mm
Width: 230 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
1162 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-96680-038-9 (9783966800389)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
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Contributions
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