City layer, 110, 153
Earth layer, 94, 110, 140 – 141
User layer, 124, 154, 168, 187
Cloud Polis
Amazon model, 131 – 133, 331, 369
clinamen, 77, 358 – 359
Apple model, 128 – 131, 187 – 188
availability of, 312
Clinton, Hillary, 3, 13, 319, 351
Cloud layer
China-Google conflict, 9, 112 – 115, 143 – 144, 245, 361
access to, limiting, 314
China model, 143
beginnings, 110
to come, 122 – 123, 298, 313, 316 – 319
Cloud-based state, 109, 119 – 121, 295, 316, 327, 399n36, 441n8
defined, 369 – 370
design of, 109, 124, 141 – 145
Cloud-based User-response-driven systems, 255
exclusionary, 309, 311 – 312, 317
Facebook model, 125 – 128, 187 – 188
Cloud corporations, 183
to come, 295 – 296, 299, 307 – 319
Google model, 134 – 141, 143, 184 – 185, 187 – 188, 332, 369
decentralization, 156 – 157
interfacial regime, 339 – 340
defined, 67, 369
introduction, 109 – 110
design, 141 – 145
megastructure headquarters, 155
economics, 116, 136 – 138
model of planetary urbanity, 258
feudalism, 111, 143, 295, 307 – 309, 317 – 318, 328, 369
political economic architecture, 124
popular discourse on, 312 – 313
geography, 123
present-day, 119 – 122, 318
geopolitics, 26, 110 – 112, 114, 118 – 119, 124, 141 – 145, 454n75
revenue stream, 295
reversibility of, 319
governance of, 68, 140, 143
of things, 131
as grid, 140
Walmart model, 331
growth, limits to, 94, 117 – 118
Clouds (Aristophanes), 109
importance of, 125
Clow, Lee, 128
infrastructure, 67, 115 – 119, 124
cocaine, 173
interfacial problematics, 256
cockroaches, 275, 285
introduction, 70, 109 – 111
cognition, militarization of, 297
jurisdiction, 113 – 114, 140
cognition-interfaciality synthesis, 297
landfill, 94
metadata, 116
cognitive capitalism, 110, 116, 203, 241, 258, 295
as physical, 29
Cohen, Jared, 134 – 136, 361
productive accidents of, 112, 114, 145
coin mining, 393n54
services, 116 – 118
Cold War, 325
terraforming project of, 111, 115 – 116
coltan (tantalum), 82 – 83
tethers, 82, 148 ( see also mobile devices)
columns
Cloud layer interactions Address layer, 152, 211 accessing, 68, 298, 314
defined, 67, 370
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Index