amg_October_16th_2017_MDEM_Cyberspace_co.ppt

MDEM Cyberspace

2. a global Atlantic-centric take
as seen in Google Earth,

3. image, NASA, overlooking the North Atlantic

4. image, NASA, centered on the wide South Atlantic
A Room with a View

5. classical geopolítics: the opening fo the Atlantic as a Mare Nostrum,
then a Mare Clausum: Tordesillas and the Portuguese commercial
routes during the XVIth Century (in blue) and “española” ones (these
latter ‘de longo curso’ and in white, here)

6. ports in Atlantic Basin and the
Portuguese and ‘Spanish’ routes,
cents. 15th to 18th

7. a view of the slave-trade, Africa-Americas, 1650-1860

8. almost a decade ago: comparative global density of sea-
borne commercial exchanges (um mapa adaptado de um
outro, do National Center for Ecological Analysis and
Synthesis, 2008)

9. global density of commercial exchanges, 2016.
The colours: in yellow, the more populated
regions, in reddish the less populated ones

10. mapa dos centros das emissões mais intensas de
dióxido de carbono, CO
2
, a cores. A verde, o mais
“verde” (2016).

11. o reacender do Atlântico Sul, after the Panama enlargement, after
the eventual TTIP, if Trump allows it: the new (but surely not the
largest) Basin harbours - those being built, enlarged or in fieri – shall
mostly be located on the south of the Basin. So will likely be active
militarization and underlying social movements

12. President Theodore Roosevelt visiting
the Canal do Panama, 1908

13. the almost finished Panama Canal, 1913

14. left, USS Missouri, crossing the Panama Canal, 1945, back from Japan to
the USA; right, the old and new routes of the Great White Fleet of
President Teddy Roosevelt, and the shortcut needed after the
‘Conquest of the West’

15. works, by 2012

16. In 2014, Mau Tempo no Canal? The enlargement was
consumated on 6 June 6th, 2016, doubling its width

17. “enlargement works and a passing luxury
cruise ship”, March 2013

18. waiting queue, Canal do Panama (2013) on the Pacific side, and the
alternatives for the ‘unbottling’: that of the “Canal Seco” via Costa
Rica (2012)and that of the “Canal de Nicarágua” (2014)via the latter
one; but both with China

19. la abertura del Canal de Panama alargado: Monday, June 6th, 2016, at
5:07 pm. a Chinese ship blazing the new trail.

20. Panama Canal and PortMiami Renew MOU as the
Port Welcomes its first NeoPanamax vessel

21. ‘coordinated migrations’ and urbanization, before the onset
of the ‘Syrian crisis’: map of coordinated migration, and, in
yellow shade, countries with biggest urbanization growth,
2002-2017

22. ‘Cyberspace’? Is it really a space?

23. the first Atlantic cable, a telegrafphy one: the very forst Morse code message, sent on August
16
th
, 1858, by Queen Victoria to Presidene James Buchanan, was “Europe and America are
united by telegraphy. Glory to God in the highest; on earth, peace and good will toward men”.
The following Setember the connection was broken. Its permanent technical reposition , carried
out by the Atlantic Telegraph Company , owned by the same John Pender who had laid the first
cables 8 years earlierwas only finished in 1866. The first TransPacific cables, running across
from S. Francisco to Hawaii, Guam, and the Philppines, were only laid on 1902-1903. Once agian
huge innovations taking place.

24. winding back, ainda olhando para o passado:
“1901, Eastern Telegraph cables”, as the
TransPacific cables were only being sketched

25. some of the new diomensions of geopolitics:
optic internet submarine cable map, 2015

26. 2015, “optical submarine cable on the oceanic
depths of the northern Atlantic Basin”

27. as Mark Twain so aptly wrote, “History does not repeat irself, but it
does rhyme a lot”. Optical fibers, zooming in: the internet and optical
cables attached around here, up closer, also in 2015. Look at the lines
and compare Portugal (not Spain or France) with The Netherlands and
the UK. A ‘repetition’ of the patterns of colonial maritime
connectivities?

28. Problematising: submarine cable map, 2009. Note the almost
total absence of cables ‘attached’ to Portugal. So the pattern
repetition is new...!!! Why is that?!? What does it ressonate
with, or respond to?

29. 2015, optical submarine cables and the South Atlantic
basin, the myth of South-South connections laid bare: in
what concerns digital, it is nothing but wishful thinking

30. optical cables in Asia, centered of the
Straits of Malacca, 2015

31. Laying down optical submarine cables by
France-Telecom-Marine, René Descartes; to
the right, a "submarine optical cable cross-
section"

32. optical data cables

33. details, and the scale of a small cable

34. deploying an optical cable

35. cable joint and deployer 'vehicle'

36. burying a cable with a sort of

37. •submarine-cable-20-638

38. “cable extension for the Southeast
network, Alaska”, 2017

39. alarm bells, December 2015: Russian warships hovering
above optical cable hubs

40. Launching the inter island cable from Toco while the Cable Ship Intrepid
waits offshore to begin laying the cable on the sea floor between
Tobago and Trinidad. Vulnerabilities

41. Russia hovering over cable hubs, 2015-2016,
and the Western (US and UK) reaction

42. carelessness: optical cables at hand, end of 2016,
early 2017

43. Are we stupid? Yes, we are.
Obvious vulnerabilities, 2017
(Tumon Bay cable landing)

44. low tech hig-tech, 2017: “Philippines’ Globe-Telecom strengthens
connections to Boracay with subsea fiber-optic cable. Secure?

45. up above, in 2017 (before Elon Musk): the
network of communication sattelites and their
orbits

46. another, earlier and wider, take, 2013,
on communication sattelites

47. geostationary communication sattelites,
2015

48. Here is one of them, in 2016, one of ours: “an Advanced Extremely
High Frequency communications satellite relays secure
communications for the United States and other allied countries”

49. a WildBlue satellite Internet dish, and a
foldable Bigpond internet satellite dish; a
competitive market growing

50. the back panel of a satellite modem, with coaxial
connections for both incoming and outgoing signals,
and an Ethernet port for connection.

51. “world map of internet users”, re-
scaled

52. focal points: distribution-localization of
frienship sharing on Facebook

53. 2016: the ‘gravitational force’ of the geography of the global:
connections and friendships local, regional, and global: “global
visualization of every connection between two people on Facebook”

54. What a Wonderful World, 2016: Paul Butlers map of local, regional, and
global Facebook friendshipsthe clear preference of multiple connection
hubs to the local, ‘the economiy, stupid’ , demography, and rising
patterns of urbanization

55. echoes or ressonances? A very similar map,
this one, global GDP density, 2015

56. similar too as for twitter: the so-called geolocated
tweets, 2015; echoes of galloping urbanization and
of growth in the economy

57. the mobility flows of twitter users between 58 cities,
2015. The twitter city flows : a repeated pattern?

58. globalization, desglobalization, or a new emergent
multipolarity? Imports and exports, by country, in 2014

59. Poliitcally ‘centralized’ Action vs. Decentered Choices: an example of
selectivity as concerns the old social media: countries compressed or
streched according the the news on them published by Guardian Online
from 2010 to 2012

60. potential connectivities, chokepoints and power, in the
Atlantic Basin and its surroundings: possessions françaises, in
July 2017. What do they mean, the end of the “West”?

62. July, 2017, “British possessions and British exclusive economic zones”
(in pink) e “French possessions and NATO countries territoires, as well
as those of our Allies, in the Atlantic Basin and some of its
‘chokepoints’”. Under the Cape if Good Hope, French and Norwegian
islands and archipelagoes

63. again my hypothesis of reduplication of maritime ‘colonial’
connectivity and centrality, seen with perhaps greater
graphic clarity in a neater map background . How can we
interpret this?

64. Bis. A repetition of maritime colonial patterns? But why?