Grounding the Cloud
Urbanism in the Shadow of Data
$491.40
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2026
Summary
A detailed foray into the material and spatial realities of cloud computing
Since the 1990s, technologists have promoted a vision of the “cloud” as a shapeless and intangible entity. Grounding the Cloud peers through this hazy facade to reveal the earthly material foundations of global computing and data extraction. Tracing the historical and technological development of the cloud computing paradigm, Ali Fard exposes an ever-evolving project in which ideologi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781517919603 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1517919606 |
| Author: | Ali Fard |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 397g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 10mm |
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“Grounding the Cloud describes the contours of data clouds in the computing landscape–not only the physical plant of data storage but the remote urban outcroppings and the environmental blowback from an infrastructure that is not immediately visible or apparent. Ali Fard gives shape to this stretchy territory of misleading scripts, counterculture disguises, and smart city fallacies that tries to obscure its massive accumulations of capital.” –Keller Easterling, author of Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World
About The Author
Ali Fard
Ali Fard is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Virginia. He is coeditor of New Geographies, 7: Geographies of Information.
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