The digital revolution was a dinner party but its afterglow is not. The once utopian promises of high-definition audiovisuals, real-time electronic communication and infinite storage possibilities are just some of the digital culture perspectives that are now widely disseminated. At the same time as these phenomena are still shrouded in the glossy aesthetics of the digital, their tarnished appeal cannot be denied in a world where ‚big data‘ is also the ‚big brother‘ of mass surveillance and where the ‚cloud‘ is made of the metals and minerals of the ‚earth‘ on which data centers are built….