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Breakdowns, (Un-)Sichtbarkeiten und glitches. Kritische Geographien der Resilienz digitaler Infrastrukturen
Boris Michel
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Institut für Geowissenschaften und Geographie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Deutschland
Finn Dammann
Institut für Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Deutschland
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Critical geographers in recent years became interested incidents of failure, disruption and glitches in digital technologies. While we sympathize with the basic assumptions of this discussion this paper proposes an opposing perspective. Using the example of Internet infrastructures, we focus on the work of preventing glitches and maintanance. We are particularly interested in the production of resilience the rationalities of redundancy and addressing latency.
Critical geographers in recent years became interested incidents of failure, disruption and...
