Cloud Atlas. A Global Analysis of Cloud Infrastructures

Through document analysis and participant observation, the thesis employed a genealogical lens to examine how, at the unfolding of the current crisis conjuncture, cloud infrastructures shape the politics of automation by mediating with capital, states, and transitional regimes of labour. Following an introduction to the theoretical and methodological framework, the thesis is organised into four articles: documentary analysis and participant observation in Italy (Articles I–II); archival research in Guadeloupe (Article III); and documentary research conducted in Australia focusing on Malaysia (Article IV). With a Cloud Atlas, I call for the development of a historical and geographical-oriented framework to analyse the entanglements between the politics of automation (framed in logics, geographies, and aesthetics) and the politics of cloud infrastructures as disjunctive conjunctures in the long durée of global capitalism.