ENDORSEMENTS
“In The Stack, Benjamin Bratton shows, with brilliant insight and imagination, what the world is coming to look like in an era of planetary-scale computing. He cuts through many received ideas about technology, globalization, and so forth and presents a fresh vision of the architecture of the world.”
—McKenzie Wark, author of Molecular Red
“Endlessly thought-provoking, this amazing book is both cognitive mapping and a projective geometry of the new dimensions of technological reality we live in.”
—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of 2312
“The Stack is a major achievement. It is more than just philosophy of technology, software studies, or design criticism; it analyzes and guides our thinking in a baffling Anthropocenic era when computation works at the planetary scale and constitutes governance.”
—Natalie Jeremijenko, Associate Professor of Art, Computer Science, and Environmental Studies, New York University
“The Stack imagines a design brief for the whole world while floating or falling through all the ever-efflorescent plasmas and atmospheres of digital information.”
—Keller Easterling, Professor, Yale School of Architecture; author of Extrastatecraft
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