Special Economic Zones, 114, 163, 309
politics of, 69
SPIME, 201 – 204
properties, 5, 52
Spivak, Gayatri, 270
purpose of, 107
Spoofing addresses, 361
stability, 250
Spufford, Francis, 58
things incorporated, requirements for, 197
Srinivasan, Balaji, 312 – 315, 319
totalitarianism, resistance to, 69
Stack, The
totality of, 213 – 214
as accidental megastructure, 5, 8 – 17, 54, 61, 64, 72, 303, 367
utopian and dystopian machine, 5
that was and might have been, 58 – 61
architecture, 5, 11, 52 – 54, 327
stack effect, 303
axonometric diagram of, 66
Stack model, 2 – 8, 12 – 13, 24, 52 – 55
City layer integration, 154 – 155, 170, 177
Stack space, 34 – 35
conflict in cohering/distributed inscription, 112
Stack-to-come
Address layer, 326 – 337
constituent and curatorial, 59 – 60
becoming, 351
constitutive and generative, 58 – 59
building, 357 – 358
decision-making, 37
challenge of seeing, 294
defined, 37, 375
City layer, 314, 320 – 327
design, 38 – 39, 153, 299, 364
Cloud layer, 295 – 296, 307 – 319
emergence, 28
Earth layer, 294 – 295, 300 – 307
energy footprint, 93, 303
fabrication of, 364
examples of, 52 – 54
formation of, 66
future arrived but not named, future named but not arrived, 294
framework, 124 – 125
geoaesthetics and geodesign, 294, 304 – 305
future of, 124 – 125
imagining, 298 – 300
geographies of, 33, 87 – 88
geopolitical geography, 4 – 5, 33, 65, 176
Interface layer, 297 – 299, 337 – 343, 347, 432n71
governance, 69, 111, 287
possibility of, 303 – 305
historical precedents, 58 – 64
made useful, 298
identity, 37, 65
User layer, 296 – 297, 313 – 314, 343 – 349
infrastructure, 90, 93, 101 – 102
Stack transportation, 280
integral accident of, 365
Stack urbanism, 149, 159 – 160, 405n11
interfacial systems, 228 – 229
Stack-versus-Stack warfare, 298, 326, 346
limits of, 85, 92 – 94
location of humans in, 253
Stack-we-have, 61 – 66, 293 – 300, 363 – 365. See also specific layers
as megastructure, 197
standards, 45, 46, 54
metaplatform, 65, 284
Stark, Tony, 249
metatechnology, 214
Star Wars, 155, 242
nomos of, 235
state
objects in, 200 – 204
authority, 6, 295, 318
and its others, 355 – 358
cartography function of, 119 – 120
platforms as, 7 – 8, 42 – 43
Cloud-based, 109, 119 – 121, 295, 316, 327,
as political machine, 55 – 58
399n36, 441n8
Index
495