Territorialising the cloud or clouding the territory? Volumetric vulnerabilities and the militarised conjunctures of Singapore's smart city-state

• Main Authors: WOODS, Orlando, BUNNELL, Tim, KONG, Lily
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Cloud computing; Territory; Data volumes; Attack surfaces; Datastructures; Military; Singapore; Asian Studies; Geography; Urban Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/215; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1214/viewcontent/TerritorialisingCloudorCloudingTerritory_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article explores how the volumetric characteristics of cloud computing can create new expressions of territoriality, which in turn can reveal new axes of vulnerability and threat. Whilst recent work in political geography has sought to “locate” the cloud through analyses of data centre geograph...