Where Cloud Is Ground

Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland

Alix Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39635-7 (ISBN)

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Where Cloud Is Ground offers an ethnography of the international data storage industry and an inquiry into the relationship between data and place. Based in Iceland, which is fast becoming a hot spot for data centers—facilities where large quantities of data are processed and stored—the book traces the fraught work of siting data’s material manifestations in relation to landforms and earth processes, local politics, national narratives, and still-open questions of spatial justice and sovereignty. Doing so, it unsettles techno-utopian ideals of connectivity and offers a window into what it means to live with our data, in a place where more and more data now lives.

Alix Johnson is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Macalester College.

Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on Language and Naming

Introduction: Putting Data in Its Place

PART I ARTICUTION

1. A Natural Fit
2. The Switzerland of Bits

PART II ANCHORING

3. Something from Nothing
4. Data Centers, Data Peripheries

PART III EXCESS

5. Inside Out
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century ; 11
Zusatzinfo	16 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39635-9 / 0520396359
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39635-7 / 9780520396357
Zustand	Neuware