A prehistory of the cloud

The shape of the network. The graft

"Strange and unusual fits," 1961

Truckstop networks (Portola Valley, California)

Time-sharing and virtualization. Intimacies of the user: from the stolen look to stolen time

"The Victorians built magnificent drains": waste, privacy, and the cloud

Cloud cartography

Interlude: Learning from Santa Clara

Data centers and data bunkers. "The internet must be defended!"

Bunker archeology

The melancholy of new media

Seeing the cloud of data. War as big data

"The other night sky": seeing and counterseeing

Necropolitics.