The Power of Infrastructure Space
by Keller Easterling
- Author(s)
- Keller Easterling
- Publication
- London ; New York : Verso Books, 2016
- Scope
- 252 Pages, 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781784783648
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity - polity means to form a politically organized unit through the management of public or civil affairs. Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more. Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our everyday lives, making the city the key site of power and resistance in the twenty-first century. Keller Easterling reveals the nexus of emerging governmental and corporate forces buried within the concrete and fiber-optics of our modern habitat. Extrastatecraft will change how we think about cities—and, perhaps, how we live in them.
- Keywords
- new media
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 3: Technologie + Posthumanisme
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
