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[mmmmarley-blog1]

metahaven testing the frontiers of my bank account

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[branding-new-perspectives]

[branding-new-perspectives]

In 2010, in the United Kingdom, the Conservatives won the elections with a pro-austerity campaign promise full of social media brandspeak. Its main message was “big society, not big government.” A Wikipedia idea of commissioned civic voluntarism supplanting the last remains of the welfare system, like “we’re no longer paying for this school or post office, but feel free to start your own.”

[post-planetary]

'Instead of viewing the various scales of emergent ubiquitous computing technologies as a haphazard collection of individual processes, devices and standards (RFID, cloud storage, augmented reality, smart cities, conflict minerals, etc.), it is more illuminating to model them as components of a larger, comprehensive, meta-technology. The Stack is planetary-scale computation understood as a megastructure. The term “stack” is borrowed from the TCP/IP or OSI layered model of distributed network architecture. At the scale of planetary computation, The Stack is comprised of 7 interdependent layers: Earth, Cloud, City, Network, Address, Interface, User. In this, it is an attempt to conceive of the technical and geopolitical structures of planetary computation as a “totality.”' B. Bratton