A Prehistory of the Cloud 在线电子书 图书标签: 媒介考古学 digital STS 技术 媒介理论及媒介考古学 好书名 云 studies
发表于2024-11-22
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细读了导论和第一章,全书结构非常清晰。
评分This book shows how “cloud” has been a metaphor to understand our media-saturated society by exposing the architecture and logistics of media
评分写得一手好诗的前工程师在搞新媒体理论
评分细读了导论和第一章,全书结构非常清晰。
评分细读了导论和第一章,全书结构非常清晰。
Tung-Hui Hu, a former network engineer, is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan and the recipient of a 2015 NEA literature fellowship.
We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a whole universe of technologies and cultural norms, all working to keep us from noticing their existence. In this book, Tung-Hui Hu examines the gap between the real and the virtual in our understanding of the cloud.
Hu shows that the cloud grew out of such older networks as railroad tracks, sewer lines, and television circuits. He describes key moments in the prehistory of the cloud, from the game “Spacewar” as exemplar of time-sharing computers to Cold War bunkers that were later reused as data centers. Countering the popular perception of a new “cloudlike” political power that is dispersed and immaterial, Hu argues that the cloud grafts digital technologies onto older ways of exerting power over a population. But because we invest the cloud with cultural fantasies about security and participation, we fail to recognize its militarized origins and ideology. Moving between the materiality of the technology itself and its cultural rhetoric, Hu’s account offers a set of new tools for rethinking the contemporary digital environment.
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A Prehistory of the Cloud 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024