...Allison Carruth This essay considers a wide range of materials—journalism, fiction, corporate white papers, advertisements, and infographics—to examine an emerging cultural image of green networks. The author puts pressure on the quasi-ecological rhetoric of the cloud by considering the material...

.... These continuously updated statistical dashboards, along with retrospective game analysis and methodical routines of self-adjustment, help gamblers abide swings of chance and avoid falling into the emotionally clouded, fiscally dangerous state of “tilt.” Drawing on interviews with gamblers, observations of online...

... groups of languages? Can spoken languages be copyrighted as computer languages are copyrighted? Clearly, the answer to both these questions is no. As with cloud formations, languages cannot be owned. In spite of the fact...

... in the belly of the sky, to nest in clouds, to pounce on the white man who hunted his ancestors like deer and scattered them in Arizona. But fever chased his soul from his body. It settled in a passing cloud. His body slept in a ditch. He never became that fierce bird. It was three years before the Apache's...

... a similarly “expanded sense of the media concept.” In The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media , Peters points out that understanding media as institutions, such as newspapers or cinema, is relatively recent compared to the longer genealogy of framing elements as media. Unraveling...

... and knees for any worms and bugs and I would kill and bury them. And sometimes when I had everything straight and clean for my things to grow, I would lie down on my back between two rows, and I would gaze up in the blue sky at the clouds moving...

... is perhaps the paradigmatic illustration. Carruth, in staking out an environmental ethics for cyberculture, critiques the image of the digital cloud as “a green space at once everywhere and nowhere in particular.” From industry-sponsored infographics and technology news to cyberpunk fiction, that image...

... of control over his perceived situation by making oppo- sition thematic in his work. The conflict is not resolved by this decision but is at least given expression, dramatized. In a work such as Cloud Harmony No. I (1978, fig. l), Wong shows his...

... of a mushroom cloud on a stark black background, declar- 490 The Billboard Campaign © Joseph© Masco Figure 2 ing in bright orange letters: “New Mexico: World Capital of Weapons of Mass Destruction...

... in a continuous state of alert. 5 In its ability to yoke individual bodies to a metaphysical rule, the SAGE network proleptically enacted, in direct militarized form, an early form of “plugging in to the cloud,” to invoke the work of Allison Carruth (in this issue, 361 ) on the hidden “micropolitics of energy...

... Contributors Emilienne Baneth-­Nouailhetas is an alumna of the École Normale Supérieure (Fontenay-­Saint Cloud, France), professor of English literature, and senior researcher for the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Her inter- ests...

... at dusk and lifted the sounds to the sky, from where they continued to rise and were borne on a bed of fleecy clouds that drifted slowly and very low in the sky over the wall, ignoring the interruption in the view. Then the sounds started to fade...

... the crucial organizing factors for cultural, economic, and political processes (e.g., Friedman 2005 ; Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2014) . This “disembedded view,” as one may call it, has dominated popular narratives of the digital thanks to endless metaphors, like the cloud, and visual representations of ones...

... York: Olive Branch Press, 1993). Bennis, Phyllis and Moushabeck, Michael, eds. Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order. (New York: Olive Branch Press, 1993). Bess, Michael, ed. Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and the Strategies for Peace...

... Hindi-Urdu word for spoon, mostly used now in its metaphorical sense of sycophant, lickspittle). Both plummet earthwards and engage in a conver- sation, and as they plunge through a long, vertical tunnel in the clouds, Farishta also encounters one of his former lovers from Bombay, a woman...

...: sources of funding and fetish spaces farther afield, whose lure clouds his vision as well. And here, the politics of it all becomes still more fraught — ­a point that comes across with considerable sophistication in Totems...

... of the national security state (Gusterson 1996 ; Masco 2014 ). 1 What we do not account for are all the secrets that were not so secret, the clouds of partial or uncertain information about government activities that floated in the press and the public. We ignore the public sphere of disclosure that grew...

... cast by the monsoon clouds in his damp, cramped room as the dying gasps of a halfdead animal caught in a trap.12 Escape from this ugliness lies in reestablishing a connection with the vil- lage by marrying a village woman. This is the woman he imagines as serenely awaiting him, dressed...

.... Jones 2017 ). A scratchy throat that cannot be soothed. Imagine the sound of a tear gas canister clanking to the asphalt at your feet, hissing a cloud of noxious haze. When protesters marched peacefully in Rochester for Daniel Prude, they were met by police with tear gas and pepper balls...