Equal parts Borges, Burroughs, Baudrillard, and Black Ops, Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution charts a treacherous landscape filled with paranoid master plans, failed schemes, and dubious histories.
Benjamin H. Bratton's kaleidoscopic theory-fiction links the utopian fantasies of political violence with the equally utopian programs of security and control. Both rely on all manner of doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns to realize their propagandas of the deed, threat, and image. Blurring reality and delusion, they collaborate on a literally psychotic politics of architecture.
The cast of characters in this ensemble drama of righteous desperation and tactical trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, action and script, flesh and symbol, death and philosophy: insect urbanists, seditious masquerades, epistolary ideologues, distant dissimulations, carnivorous installations, forgotten footage, branded revolts, imploding skyscrapers, sentimental memorials, ad-hoc bunkers, sacred hijackings, vampire safe-houses, suburban enclaves, big-time proposals, ambient security protocols, disputed borders-of-convenience, empty research campuses, and robotic surgery.
In this mosaic we glimpse a future city built with designed violence and the violence of design. As one ratifies the other, the exception becomes the ruler.
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Автор: Bratton Benjamin H. Название: The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty ISBN: 026202957X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262029575 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 45480.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack -- an accidental megastructure -- is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture.
What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales -- from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self -- quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors, algorithms, and robots. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image?
In The Stack, Benjamin Bratton proposes that these different genres of computation -- smart grids, cloud platforms, mobile apps, smart cities, the Internet of Things, automation -- can be seen not as so many species evolving on their own, but as forming a coherent whole: an accidental megastructure called The Stack that is both a computational apparatus and a new governing architecture. We are inside The Stack and it is inside of us.
In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing on political philosophy, architectural theory, and software studies, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User. Each is mapped on its own terms and understood as a component within the larger whole built from hard and soft systems intermingling -- not only computational forms but also social, human, and physical forces. This model, informed by the logic of the multilayered structure of protocol "stacks," in which network technologies operate within a modular and vertical order, offers a comprehensive image of our emerging infrastructure and a platform for its ongoing reinvention.
The Stack is an interdisciplinary design brief for a new geopolitics that works with and for planetary-scale computation. Interweaving the continental, urban, and perceptual scales, it shows how we can better build, dwell within, communicate with, and govern our worlds.
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Автор: Bratton Benjamin Название: Revenge of the Real: Post-Pandemic Politics ISBN: 183976256X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839762567 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12570.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The future of politics after the pandemic
Автор: Laura A. Bratton-butler, Bratton-butler Название: Victorious voices of abuse: poetry and p ISBN: 153208434X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781532084348 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Have you ever known anyone that was abused? Do you think you could/would recognize abuse if it was right in front of you? This Book of Poetry & Prose scenarios was written to Empower and Enlighten the victims of Abuse and Neglect. Child & Spousal Abuse, Human Trafficking & Porn wreak havoc 24/7 365 days a year. "Victorious Voices of Abuse" takes you within the mind and thought processes of persons plagued by abuse and neglect. "Victorious Voices of Abuse" had to be written It is the Voice of all persons who wanted to tell someone; but never felt strong or comfortable enough to whisper a word, hint, or clue of the obvious, and often not so obvious crimes they were forced to endure in life.
Автор: Bratton John A., Denham David Название: Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Third Edition ISBN: 1487588186 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781487588182 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 52670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this book, two experts on classical social theory explain why we must find context in the works of classical thinkers to better understand the complexities of today`s issues.
Автор: Bratton C. M. Название: The Dragonlady Trilogy: Omnibus ISBN: 1535370254 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781535370257 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 28730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Bratton C. M. Название: The Dragonlord Trilogy ISBN: 1541087828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781541087828 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 27570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Bratton C. M. Название: The Rza Chronicles ISBN: 153463567X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781534635678 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 27570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
