Finally had a chance to sit down and listen to Dr. Katie MacKinnon‘s talk at Manchester Metropolitan’s Digital Society Research Group (DISC) from last month.
From an intro slide, “DEEP TIME DATA ARCHIVES”:
- create contingencies by inscribing corporate owners into the future
- lock access, paradoxically entailing stasis and potentially obsolescence
- reveal cryopolitics of data
- extend the centralization and control of platforms into deep time
After I finished screaming about a company offering Disaster Recovery as a Service held on SpaceX satellites orbiting the moon, I decided to post this.
Shout-out to the shout-out to Iron Mountain, the former salt mine in western PA that you may know from it being the location of the US federal government’s retirement office; one of the largest employers in Butler County, PA; or, if you work at the University of Pittsburgh, maybe “The Mine” where we send paperwork and old hard drives to sit for several years before destruction.
Risk Management and planning for continuity still feels like an institutional anxiety disorder. Post-bunkerism.