Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of Data
Farms, edited by Tsvetelina Hristova, Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter.
Like all Open Humanities Press books, /Data Farms/ is available open
access (it can be downloaded for free):
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/data-farms/
*Book description:*
What is at stake in naming data centres as data farms? These
installations are essentially hangars packed with computers. They
congregate servers, switches and wires that facilitate the storage,
processing and transmission of data in high volumes and at fast speeds.
Data centres present a scale of operations, potentially planetary in
scope, that intensifies and multiplies the productive and extractive
capacities of digital technologies. The economic advantages that accrue
to parties with servers in these installations derive not only from
opportunities for peering and networking but also from inputs to client
machines that may be situated at vast distance. Yet data centres have
precise locations, often clustering where there is access to energy,
skills, land concessions, tax exemptions or undersea cables. There are
no data centres without land and water. Like the ‘dark satanic mills’
associated with the factories of the industrial revolution, data centres
burn fossil fuels. Yet, despite these continuities with agrarian and
industrial activity, the data economy generates stark figurations of
territory, power and circulation.
*Editor Bios*
Tsvetelina Hristova is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for
Culture and Society, Western Sydney University.
Brett Neilson is Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society,
Western Sydney University. He is author, with Sandro Mezzadra, of
/Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor/ and /The Politics of
Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism/.
Ned Rossiter is Director of Research at the Institute for Culture and
Society, and Professor of Communication, School of Humanities and
Communication Arts, Western Sydney University. His current book projects
include /Media of Decision/ and (with Soenke Zehle) /The Experience of
Digital Objects: Automation, Aesthetics, Algorithms/.
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*Series*
/Data Farms/ is published as part of the Low Latencies series, edited by
Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/low-latencies/
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