The stack : on software and sovereignty 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. What has planetary scale computation done to our geopolitical realities It takes different forms at different scales―from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self―quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors algorithms and robots. Together how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image