automating decision-making through, 341 as code, 327 force of, 302, 310, 328, 334, 356 law of the land, 380n13 rule of, 103, 111, 173 layers of The Stack accidents possible within, 11, 13 architecture, 11 – 12, 357 blur as metaphor for workings of, 14 to come, 314 complementarity/differences, 52, 66 – 67 interdependence, 68 leverage between, 68 machinic jurisdictions, 66 modularity within, 68 – 69 nonhuman User interactions, 284 productive accidents of, 9 – 10, 37 sovereign claim over, 69 sovereign operations, 314 Stacks-to-come, 299 – 300 standard protocols, 68 Lazarfeld, Paul, 254 League of Nations, 31 leap of faith, 426n46 Lebensraum, Nazi Germany, 32 Le Corbusier (Charles- É douard Jeanneret), 53 Lefebvre, Henri, 404n10, 424n41 legitimacy, crisis of, 26 Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 77 Lem, Stanislaw, 341 Lenin, Vladimir, 330 Leonardo da Vinci, 254 Lessig, Lawrence, 363 L é vi-Straussian structuralism, 380n15 Levy, Steven, 437n58 Lewis and Clark expedition, 120 liberal internationalism, 32 liberal technocracy, 312 – 314, 316 – 317 liberty, 313 “ Library of Babel ” (Borges), 209, 416n34 library of the real, 363 – 364 Limbaugh, Rush, 128
lines. See also borders; grids of communication, 205 of demarcation, international law, 32 geopolitical effects, 39 – 40 inside and outside of, 23 – 28 land versus sea, 19, 26 – 28, 30, 113, 150 nomos of the Cloud, 28 – 31 reversibility, 22, 150 subdividing Earth, 21 – 24, 193, 195
liquefaction and solidification, 355, 379n9
liquefaction of self, 71
live-work-sleep factory cities, 130 – 131
living beings-subjects-apparatuses, 272, 279
Llull, Ramon, 77
localism, 104, 143
logistical aesthetics, 178, 230 – 235, 243
logistics, defined, 422n28
London, US embassy in, 322
Longo, Giuseppe, 389n12
loop topology, 24, 84, 373
Los Angeles, 320
Lovelace, Ada Byron, 42, 79
Lucretius, 77, 192
Luhmann, Niklas, 385n25
machine-as-state, 7 – 13, 34, 40, 65, 373
machine-human distinction, 164 – 165
machine owners, rights of, 285
machines agency of, 348 of governance, 173 – 174 innate capacities of, 273 intelligence of, 78, 81, 262, 362 real versus artificial, 358 subjectification of, 272 – 273
machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, 137
machine-to-machine (M2M) connoisseurship, 226
machine User, 279 – 284
machinic prostheticization theory, 273
Madison, James, 109
Mad Max, 319
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