What I take from Bratton is The Stack, which I read as the computational grammar for planetary institutions.
How the word moved
In February 2026 he was on the governance readings of the Planetarity Syllabus. By July 2026 I was reading The Stack as an accidental megamachine terraforming the Earth.
In my words
"Bratton’s Stack offers us a new computational architecture/grammar for these institutions."
from The Planetarity Syllabus. Governing the Planet, Part 1, 10 Feb 2026
Related
- Related Stack - his concept.
- Related Gilman and Blake - I merge their work with his into cyborg institutions.
- Related Technosphere - where I put planetary computation.