Cloud Time
Book Details
Author(s)Dean Lockwood, Rob Coley
PublisherZero Books
ISBN / ASIN1780990952
ISBN-139781780990958
AvailabilityUsually ships in 1-2 business days
Sales Rank4,221,371
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The ‘Cloud’, hailed as a new digital commons, a utopia of collaborative expression and constant connection, actually constitutes a strategy of vitalist post-hegemonic power, which moves to dominate immanently and intensively, organizing our affective political involvements, instituting new modes of enclosure, and, crucially, colonizing the future through a new temporality of control. The virtual is often claimed as a realm of invention through which capitalism might be cracked, but it is precisely here that power now thrives. Cloud time, in service of security and profit, assumes all is knowable. We bear witness to the collapse of both past and future virtuals into a present dedicated to the exploitation of the spectres of both.
