Abstract
Data center infrastructures provide a lens for understanding the rise of resilience thinking, for grasping the pragmatism and promise of resilience as approach. Unable to anticipate every threat and lockout every contingency, developers of resilient infrastructure "design in" failure, automate monitoring and maintenance, and build capacity to flexibly adapt to new threats. In enacting resilience in the present, they anticipate possible futures, prototyping forms of future life. In this sense, infrastructures should also be understood as operational imaginaries" as systems that powerfully suggest a set of future possibilities by enacting them concretely in the present.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 167-176 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Information Society |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 26 May 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020, © 2020 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Keywords
- data centers
- electronic data processing
- governance
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