--- schema_version: "library-reader-v1" source_type: "original_book" title: "The Stack On Software and Sovereignty" author: null edition: null publisher: null year: null isbn: "9780262029575" library_document_id: "24410bf1-91f1-4e6b-9613-e64f0132d341" source_sha256: "9ce65d410e7e1630d3751064df8dca7be548b331423b3bb82e47c29fb5ab6d96" pdf_physical_page_count: 517 pdf_physical_page_index_base: 0 range_start: 0 range_count: 10 html_url: "https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/24410bf1-91f1-4e6b-9613-e64f0132d341?start=0&limit=10" markdown_url: "https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/24410bf1-91f1-4e6b-9613-e64f0132d341.md?start=0&limit=10" next_url: "https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/24410bf1-91f1-4e6b-9613-e64f0132d341.md?start=10&limit=10" --- # The Stack On Software and Sovereignty > 页码规则：PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX 是从 0 开始的权威文件物理页索引；PRINTED_PAGE 是页面中识别出的印刷页码，可能为空，二者不得混用。 ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=0 | PRINTED_PAGE=NOT_DETECTED Fheck The Stack |On Software and Sovereignty Benjamin H. Bratton ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=1 | PRINTED_PAGE=NOT_DETECTED The Stack ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=2 | PRINTED_PAGE=NOT_DETECTED Software Studies Matthew Fuller, Lev Manovich, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, editors Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, 2009 Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life, Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge, 2011 Programmed Visions: Software and Memory, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, 2011 Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression, Geoff Cox and Alex McLean, 2012 10 PRINT CHR\$(205.5+RND(1));: GOTO 10, Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter, 2012 The Imaginary App, Paul D. Miller and Svitlana Matviyenko, 2014 The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, Benjamin H. Bratton, 2015 ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=3 | PRINTED_PAGE=NOT_DETECTED The Stack On Software and Sovereignty Benjamin H. Bratton The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=4 | PRINTED_PAGE=NOT_DETECTED © 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in ITC Stone Serif by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Cover design by Metahaven. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. ISBN: 978-0-262-02957-5 ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=5 | PRINTED_PAGE=NOT_DETECTED For Lucien, and his world. ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=6 | PRINTED_PAGE=NOT_DETECTED ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=7 | PRINTED_PAGE=NOT_DETECTED Contents Series Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii Credits xv Preface xvii I The Models Introduction 3 1. A New Architecture? 3 2. An Accidental Megastructure 8 3. Blur and Accident 13 The Nomos of the Cloud 19 4. Dividing Sovereignty 20 5. Over (and under) the Line 23 6. Land/Sea/Air/Cloud 28 7. The Nomos of the Cloud? 31 8. A Google Grossraum? 34 Platform and Stack, Model and Machine 41 9. Platforms 41 10. How Platforms Work 46 11. Stack as Model 52 12. Stack as Political Machine 55 13. Stacks That Were and Might Have Been 58 ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=8 | PRINTED_PAGE=NOT_DETECTED 15. The Layers of The Stack 66 II The Layers Earth Layer 75 16. Discovering or Inventing Computation? 76 17. Digestion 81 18. Geo-graphy and Geoaesthetics 83 19. From Global Surface to Planetary Skin 87 20. Smart Grid: Ouroboros 92 21. Sensing and Sovereignty; Polities of Supply and Effect 97 22. Designing for versus Designing with Emergencies 101 23. Designing the Earth Layer 105 Cloud Layer 109 24. Platform Geography 111 25. The First Sino-Google War of 2009 112 26. Cloud Infrastructure 115 27. Cloud Polis 119 28. Platform Wars 124 29. Facebook 125 30. Apple 128 31. Amazon 131 32. Google 134 33. Future Cloud Polis and Platforms 141 City Layer 147 34. Reversible Grids 149 35. City as Layer 151 36. Exposure and Control 155 37. Force Finding Function Finding Form 160 38. Envelope and Apparatus 163 39. Designing for Mixed Envelopes, Mixed Programs 168 viii Contents ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=9 | PRINTED_PAGE=ix Contents 40. Programs, Subjects, and Zombie Jurisdictions 172 41. Megastructure and Utopia 176 42. Platform Cities 183 Address Layer 191 43. Scale, Scope, and Structure 193 44. Deep Address 197 45. Objects in The Stack 200 46. Addressability and Technique 205 47. IPv6 207 48. Communication and Composition 210 49. Absolute Incommunication 212 50. Distortion and Genesis 214 Interface Layer 219 51. What Interfaces Are 220 52. Interfaces at Hand: From Object to Sign to Object 222 53. The Interface as Layer 228 54. Interfaces in The Stack 1: The Aesthetics of Logistics 230 55. Interfaces in The Stack 2: Apps and Programming the Space at Hand 236 56. Interfaces in The Stack 3: Theo-Interfaciality 239 57. Geoscapes: Interfaces Drawing Worlds 243 User Layer 251 58. Origins of the User 254 59. Finding the Universal User 256 60. Quantified Self and Its Mirror 260 61. Trace and Frame 265 62. Maximum User 267 63. Death of the User 271 64. Animal User 274 65. AI User 277 66. Machine User 279 67. From User-Centered Design to the Design of the User 284 ix 下一段：[继续读取](https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/24410bf1-91f1-4e6b-9613-e64f0132d341.md?start=10&limit=10)