# The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

“The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty” (2016), by Benjamin H. Bratton. Arts and Humanities research paper. Original abstract below, unchanged. No free PDF was found.

- Authors: Benjamin H. Bratton
- Published: February 19, 2016
- Field: Arts and Humanities
- Source: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/6/monograph/book/44835

## Abstract

A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack -- an accidental megastructure -- is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture.

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