![]() The Black Stack, then, is to the Stack what the shadow of the future is to the form of the present. Rather than demonstrating each layer of the Stack as a whole, I’ll focus specifically on the Cloud and the User layers, and articulate some alternative designs for these layers and for the totality (or even better, for the next totality, the nomos to come). In my analysis, there are six layers to this Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, and User. The Stack, in short, is that new nomos rendered now as vertically thickened political geography. For this, a nomos of the Cloud would, for example, draw jurisdiction not only according to the horizontal subdivision of physical sites by and for states, but also according to the vertical stacking of interdependent layers on top of one another: two geometries sometimes in cahoots, sometimes completely diagonal and unrecognizable to one another. Today, as the nomos that was defined by the horizontal loop geometry of the modern state system creaks and groans, and as “Seeing like a State” takes leave of that initial territorial nest-both with and against the demands of planetary-scale computation 3-we wrestle with the irregular abstractions of information, time, and territory, and the chaotic de-lamination of (practical) sovereignty from the occupation of place. 2 “Nomos” refers to the dominant and essential logic to the political subdivisions of the earth (of land, seas, and/or air, and now also of the domain that the US military simply calls “cyber”) and to the geopolitical order that stabilizes these subdivisions accordingly. It draws from (and against) Carl Schmitt’s later work on The Nomos of the Earth, and from his (albeit) flawed history of the geometries of geopolitical architectures. My interest in the geopolitics of planetary-scale computation focuses less on issues of personal privacy and state surveillance than on how it distorts and deforms traditional Westphalian modes of political geography, jurisdiction, and sovereignty, and produces new territories in its image. ![]() The façade of Inntel Hotel Amsterdam-Zaandam, Holland, is designed by WAM architects. 1 As such, perhaps the image of a totality that this conception provides would-as theories of totality have before-make the composition of new governmentalities and new sovereignties both more legible and more effective. This model is of a Stack that both does and does not exist as such: it is a machine that serves as a schema, as much as it is a schema of machines. Perhaps these parts align, layer by layer, into something not unlike a vast (if also incomplete), pervasive (if also irregular) software and hardware Stack. Instead of seeing the various species of contemporary computational technologies as so many different genres of machines, spinning out on their own, we should instead see them as forming the body of an accidental megastructure. Does include links to apps by Dan Russell-Pinson in the iTunes App Store (via Performance Horizon).Planetary-scale computation takes different forms at different scales: energy grids and mineral sourcing chthonic cloud infrastructure urban software and public service privatization massive universal addressing systems interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand, of the eye, or dissolved into objects users both overdetermined by self-quantification and exploded by the arrival of legions of nonhuman users (sensors, cars, robots).Does not use 3rd party analytics / data collection tools.Does not contain integration with social networks.Try it now and enjoy four games for the price of one! Stack the States® 2 is an educational app for all ages that’s actually FUN to play. Works on both iPhone and iPad – a universal app.Plus, all the great features that you loved from the original Stack the States®: ![]() 10 different 3D scenes depicting various locations in the US.Brand new interactive map featuring major cities and a 3D elevation view of each state.New voice mode that helps non-readers play independently.New bonus games: Connect 2 and Capital Tap.Try to collect all 50! As you earn more states, you begin to unlock the free bonus games: Map It, Connect 2 and Capital Tap. All of your states appear on your own personalized map of the United States. ![]() You earn a new state for every successfully completed level. Carefully build a stack of states that reaches the checkered line to win each level. Stack the States® is back and better than ever with new question types, new bonus games, voice mode, 3D graphics and a detailed interactive map!Īs you learn state capitals, cities, shapes, landmarks, flags and more, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated states anywhere on the screen. Watch the states come to life as you learn US geography!
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