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The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure - Race, Affect, Environment (Paperback)
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The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure - Race, Affect, Environment (Paperback)
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A critical reading of the unstable structures that organize
biological and social life This timely and radically
interdisciplinary volume uncovers the aesthetics and politics of
infrastructure. From roads and bridges to harbors and canals,
infrastructure is conventionally understood as the public works
that allow for the circulation of capital. Yet this naturalized
concept of infrastructure, driven by capital's restless expansion,
is haunted by imperial tendencies to occupy territory, extract
resources, and organize life. Infrastructure thus undergirds the
living nexus of modernity in an ongoing project of racialization,
affective embodiment, and environmental praxis. Rather than merely
making visible infrastructure's modes of power, however, The
Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure brings literary methods to bear on
the interpretive terrain, reading infrastructural space and
temporalities to show that their aesthetic and sensorial experience
cannot be understood apart from histories of production and
political economies. Building on critical infrastructure studies in
anthropology, geography, and media studies, this collection
demonstrates the field's vitality to scholars working across the
humanities, including in literary, visual, and cultural studies. By
querying the presumed invisibility of infrastructure's hidden life,
the volume's contributors revitalize ongoing literary debates about
reading surface and depth. How, they ask, might infrastructure and
aesthetics then function as epistemic tools for rethinking each
other? And what urgency do they acquire in light of current crises
that bear on death, whether biological, social, or planetary?
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