Cloud geographies: Computing, data, sovereignty
Cloud geographies: Computing, data, sovereignty
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DOI：
10.1177/0309132516662147
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发表时间：
2018-02-01
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7.1
通讯作者：
Amoore, Louise
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作者：
Amoore, Louise
云计算的架构与地缘政治正变得越来越紧密地交织在一起--从情报数据共享，到边境管制、移民决策和无人机袭击。通过与20世纪早期粒子物理学中的云室进行类比，本文探讨了云计算中的云的地理学。它通过两个不同的范例阐述了云计算的地理特征。第一种是“云I”或云的地理形态，它涉及云被认为实现的数据中心的识别和空间位置。在这里，云是在特定的观察史中被理解的，在这个历史中，表面上抽象和晦涩的世界可以被带入视线，并使其变得可理解。在第二个变种“云II”或云分析的地理学中，云是一系列实验算法技术，作用于感知本身的阈值。就像20世纪的云室一样，当代云计算关注的是将原本超出人类观察门槛的东西变成可感知和可操作的东西。这篇论文提出了相关云推理的三个要素，表明它们对我们现在的地缘政治具有重要意义：浓缩痕迹；发现模式；归档未来。
The architecture of cloud computing is becoming ever more closely intertwined with geopolitics - from the sharing of intelligence data, to border controls, immigration decisions, and drone strikes. Developing an analogy with the cloud chamber of early twentieth century particle physics, this paper explores the geography of the cloud in cloud computing. It addresses the geographical character of cloud computing across two distinct paradigms. The first, 'Cloud I' or a geography of cloud forms, is concerned with the identification and spatial location of data centres where the cloud is thought to materialize. Here the cloud is understood within a particular history of observation, one where the apparently abstract and obscure world can be brought into vision and rendered intelligible. In the second variant, 'Cloud II' or the geography of a cloud analytic, the cloud is a bundle of experimental algorithmic techniques acting upon the threshold of perception itself. Like the cloud chamber of the twentieth century, contemporary cloud computing is concerned with rendering perceptible and actionable that which would otherwise be beyond the threshold of human observation. The paper proposes three elements of correlative cloud reasoning, suggesting their significance for our geopolitical present: condensing traces; discovering patterns; and archiving the future.