Spatial Drama from Silicon Valley (#3, 2017) turns to the place from which the new imperative issues its commands. Silicon Valley appears here not as a geography but as a cognitive paradigm — one that has reorganised the world around a single operation: the rendering of being into something addressable. Anything that can be given an address can be indexed and absorbed into the matrix of a system, and the issue tracks the spatial consequences of this logic as it travels outward from the Valley into ordinary life. Across image and text, Silicon Valley is mapped as the symbol of the new digital age — the place where ontology is rebuilt as infrastructure. It is the third figure in the Silicity Protocols cycle, and the one through which the periodical first names addressability as the operative grammar of the present.

Contributors: Richard Gross, Johannes Warda

Edited by: Aleksandr Delev