The imagined community that could ground any Polis might take to the Cloud to re-animate their archaic theology , or it might be a function of the Cloud that is new and largely native to the Cloud era. Just because you are talking to someone and in the same “mental space” or whatever doesn’t qualify as a real imagined community, but doesn’t exclude it either.
Let’s not forget that the realm of the imagination gets built on very real backbone.
The hard technical cabling of the cloud, its voracious energy appetite, its bizarre landscaping footprint, its water and coal requirements, etc, are central to what it is as a global project. It is dependent on the Earth layer for gigawatts of energy, and vulnerable to the vagaries of climate change. The Cloud is very heavy.
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