DH Seminar: From the Mushroom Cloud to the Computing Cloud: Bunkers, Data, Preparedness

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As experiences of catastrophe and collapse accelerate, many corporations around the world have moved their most valuable asset - digital data - into that most iconic end-of-the-world architecture: the nuclear bunker. Tracing the rise of the bunker as an increasingly prominent cloud storage architecture, this talk introduces the concept of ‘data preparedness’ to explore the ways in which the prospect of data loss haunts everyday life in the digital world.

Alexander R. E. Taylor is an anthropologist based at the University of Exeter. He works at the intersection of digital anthropology, communication studies and science and technology studies. He is an Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Extreme Anthropology and a founder of the Cambridge Infrastructure Resilience Group, a network of researchers exploring critical infrastructure protection in relation to global catastrophic risks. His research interests include: data futures, techno-apocalyptic narratives, digital preservation and pre-digital nostalgia.

Hybrid event: If attending in person, please wear a mask (unless exempt) and keep a safe distance, and do join us for drinks and nibbles following the paper!

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