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Infrastructural Brutalism (Paperback)
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How "drowned town" literature, road movies, energy landscape
photography, and "death train" narratives represent the brutality
of industrial infrastructures.In this book, Michael Truscello looks
at the industrial infrastructure not as an invisible system of
connectivity and mobility that keeps capitalism humming in the
background but as a manufactured miasma of despair, toxicity, and
death. Truscello terms this "infrastructural brutalism"--a
formulation that not only alludes to the historical nexus of
infrastructure and the concrete aesthetic of Brutalist architecture
but also describes the ecological, political, and psychological
brutality of industrial infrastructures. Truscello explores the
necropolitics of infrastructure--how infrastructure determines who
may live and who must die--through the lens of artistic media. He
examines the white settler nostalgia of "drowned town" fiction
written after the Tennessee Valley Authority flooded rural areas
for hydroelectric projects; argues that the road movie represents a
struggle with liberal governmentality; considers the ruins of oil
capitalism, as seen in photographic landscapes of postindustrial
waste; and offers an account of "death train narratives" ranging
from the history of the Holocaust to postapocalyptic fiction.
Finally, he calls for "brisantic politics," a culture of unmaking
that is capable of slowing the advance of capitalist suicide.
"Brisance" refers to the shattering effect of an explosive, but
Truscello uses the term to signal a variety of practices for
defeating infrastructural power. Brisantic politics, he warns,
would require a reorientation of radical politics toward
infrastructure, sabotage, and cascading destruction in an
interconnected world.
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