The Stack is a book about infrastructure, politics, software, and sovereignty. In the OT archive, this entry is tagged as: infrastructure, politics, software, sovereignty, theory — a shorthand for the kinds of practice and politics it connects to. Beyond the headline: The Stack is included here because it helps read computation as an architecture of power: earth, cloud, city, address, interface, and user as layers of a planetary system. If you follow the link, you will usually find primary documentation, community governance, or ongoing work that is hard to summarize in a single paragraph. Treat this page as a bookmark and a doorway, not a replacement for reading the source.