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Data Centers: Edges of a Wired Nation

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Questions of privacy, borders, and nationhood are increasingly shaping the way we think about all things digital. Data Centers brings together essays and photographic documentation that analyze recent and ongoing developments. Taking Switzerland as an example, the book takes a look at the country's data centers, law firms, corporations, and government institutions that are involved in the creation, maintenance, and regulation of digital infrastructures. Beneath the official storyline Switzerlands moderate climate, political stability, and relatively clean energy mixthe book uncovers a much more varied and sometimes contradictory set of narratives. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 190 x 260mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Sep 2020
  • Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: Switzerland
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783037786451

About

MONIKA DOMMANN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Zurich. Topics in her research and teaching are the intertwining of the Old and New Worlds media- economic- and legal history the history of knowledge and science as well as the methods of historical science. She has a special focus on the history of material cultures immaterial goods logistics and data centers.  HANNES RICKLI is a visual artist and has held a professorship at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2004. From 1988 to 1994 he worked as a freelance photographer for various newspapers and magazines and has staged visual art exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad since 1991. In 2004 he was awarded the Meret Oppenheim Prize from the Swiss Federal Office for Culture. His teaching and research focus on the instrumental use of media and space.  MAX STADLER is a post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich (Science Studies and Collegium Helveticum). He has received a Ph.D. in the history of science technology and medicine from CHoSTM Imperial College London. His research interests center on the history of high-tech labor and the human sciences.

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