Favorites

• Starosielski, Nicolę (2015): The Undersea Network. Duke University Press
• Hu, Tung-Hui (2015): A Prehistory of the Cloud. MIT Press
• Domman, Monika; Rickli, Hannes and Max Stadler (2020): Data Centers: Edges of a Wired Nation. Lars Müller Publishers
• Hogan, Mél and Asta Vonderau (Eds.) (2019): The Nature of the Cloud. Culture Machine, Vol.18
  • Taylor, A.R.E. (2019): The Data Center as Technological Wilderness. In: Culture Machine, Vol.18
  • Johnson, Alix (2019): Emplacing Data Within Imperial Histories: Imagining Iceland as Data Centers’ ‘Natural’ Home. In: Culture Machine, Vol. 18
• Hogan, Mél (2015): Data Flows and Water Woes: The Utah Data Center. In: Big Data & Society 2(2).
• Metahaven (2012-13): Captives of the Cloud. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. e-flux Journal

Infrastructures

• Larkin, Brian (2013): The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure. In: Annual Review of Anthropology 42(1), 327-343
• van Laak, Dirk (2020): Infrastrukturen. Zeitgeschichte Digital
• Easterling, Keller (2014): Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space. Verso
• Parks, Lisa (2009): Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility. Flow Journal

Geographies

• Amoore, Louise (2018): Cloud geographies: Computing, Data, Sovereignty. In: Progress in Human Geography 42(1), 4-24
• Mattern, Shannon (2016): Cloud and Field. In: Places Journal
• Blum, Andrew (2013): Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. Ecco
• Burrington, Ingrid (2016): Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure. Melville House
• Vonderau, Asta (2017): Technologies of Imagination: Locating the Cloud in Sweden’s North. In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 8(2)
• Jaeger, Paul T.; Lin, Jimmy; Grimes, Justin M. and Shannon N. Simmons (2009): Where is the Cloud? Geography, Economics, Environment, and Jurisdiction in Cloud Computing. First Monday
• Metz, Moritz (2015): Wo das Internet lebt. WDR5
• Zschunke, Peter (2008): German Internet Exchange: Deutschlands dickster Knoten. Der Spiegel
• Stephenson, Neal (1996): Mother Earth Mother Board. WIRED

Anthropology of Infrastructure

• Star, Susan Leigh (1999): The Ethnography of Infrastructure. In: American Behavioral Scientist 43(3), 377-391
• Harvey, Penelope and Hannah Knox (2015): Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise. Cornell University Press
• Humphrey, Caroline (2005): Ideology in Infrastructure: Architecture and Soviet Imagination. In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11(1), 39-58

Poems & Manifestos

• Boehm, Barry; Postel, Jon; Kleinrock, Leonard and Vinton G. Cerf (1989): rfc1121.
• Barlow, John Perry (1996): A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Kipling, Rudyard (1911): The Secret of the Machines. Poetry Foundation
• Kipling, Rudyard (1896): The Deep-Sea Cables. Kipling Society

Metaphors

• Boomen, Marianne van den (2014): Transcoding the Digital: How Metaphors Matter in New Media. Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur
• Markham, Annette N. and Katrin Tiidenberg (2020): Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity. Peter Lang Publishing
• Cowan, T.L. and Jasmine Rault (2022): Introduction: Metaphors as Meaning and Method in Technoculture. In: Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 8(2)
• Jobin, Anna and Malte Ziewitz (2018): Organic Search: How Metaphors Help Cultivate the Web. Digital Society Blog, Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft

(Data) Bunkers

• Virilio, Paul (2011): Bunkerarchäologie. Passagen
• Taylor, A.R.E. (2021): Future-proof: Bunkered Data Centers and the Selling of Ultra-Secure Cloud Storage. In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27(S1), 76-94

Data Ecologies

• Cubitt, Sean (2017): Finite Media. Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies. Duke University Press
• Hogan, Mél (2018): Big Data Ecologies. In: Ephemeral Journal, 631-657
• Ensmenger, Nathan (2018): The Environmental History of Computing. In: Technology and Culture 59(4), 7-33
• Brain, Tega (2018): The Environment is not a System. In: A Peer-Reviewed Journal About 7(1), 152-165