Acknowledgements

To my partner in everything, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, thank you for all your support, patience, fierce ideas, and selfless love. Special thanks to Russell Davies, Rob Faure-Walker, Katherine Brydan, Cally Spooner, and Charlie Lloyd, who were kind enough to read drafts and give me their thoughts. Thanks to Tom Taylor, Ben Terret, Chris Heathcote, Tom Armitage, Phil Gyford, Alice Bartlett, Dan Williams, Nat Buckley, Matt Jones, and the RIG, BRIG, THFT and Shepherdess crews, for all of the conversations, and to everyone in the Infrastructure Club. Thanks to Kevin Slavin, Hito Steyerl, Susan Schuppli, Trevor Paglen, Karen Barad, Ingrid Burrington, Ben Vickers, Jay Springett, George Voss, Tobias Revell, and Kyriaki Goni for their work and our conversations. Thanks to Luca Barbeni, Honor Harger, and Katrina Sluis for their faith in my work. Thanks to Leo Hollis for asking, and everyone at Verso for seeing it through. Thanks to Gina Fass and everyone at Romantso in Athens, where most of this work was written, and to Helene Black and Yiannis Colakides at Neme in Limassol, who saw me through the last chapters. And thank you to Tom and Eleanor, Howard and Alex, and to my parents, John and Clemancy, for your unfailing support and enthusiasm.