The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)

How can these platforms be redesigned to organize alternative economics, geopolitics, ecologies, philosophies, and even models of historical time?

the invention of any new kind of technology is also simultaneously the invention of a new kind of accident.

should the particular data laws of any one particular geographic site try to construct and contain the laws of flow on one particular spot, regardless of the sovereign origins of sender or receiver?

The implication is not another prophecy of the declining state withering away into the realm of pure network, but to the contrary: the state's ongoing redefinition is now undertaken in relation to network geographies that it can neither contain nor be contained by

But this opposition is not simply states versus markets,

relationship to common infrastructure

These compete with states not only for claims over legitimate violence, but also claims over legitimate citizenship and the capacity to delineate borders

What will be the long-term ramifications of the privatization of the common intellect by search and social network platforms on our ability to self-govern, or toward what form of governance do they already serve us up?

it's hard to know what signals a new situation and what is trivial

politics of radical privacy