[Commlist] new book: Data Farms

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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