ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a conversation between Benjamin Bratton and Josh Taron queries The Stack as a planetary-scale megastructure that architecture must exploit if it is to operate with any degree of seriousness when designing possible futures or effectively participating with the present. Stacks are designed to be ships of Theseus, where the entire structure is replaceable, to be replaced, bit by bit, molecule by molecule, while still functioning over time. The Stack isn't the only infrastructure or the only model at work. It may be a totality but it's also one that enables multiple models of totality to compete over the practical definition of what's real and a right to adjudicate and have sovereign claims over things. In 1922, Corbusier presented the world with a choice based on the project: architecture or revolution.
