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Infrastructure Thinking is imagined as a seminar space for considering how infrastructures give rise to particular forms of social and cultural life, at the same time as privileging some lives and erasing/displacing/decimating others (human and nonhuman).
What is infrastructure? In a (hilarious) video, John Oliver of Last Week Tonight has suggested that infrastructure is anything that can be blown up in an action movie. More specifically? We might be thinking about: pipelines, healthcare systems, internet access, media, megadams, electricity grids, shipping containers, parcel delivery networks, agriculture and food networks, levies, roads, railroads, clothing networks, museums, ...
We will read a selection of writings on infrastructure (more generally), energy (cultures), standards, frameworks, entanglements, and consider some analyses of specific infrastructures. From these readings, we will develop a glossary of key terms for infrastructure thinking. The collaborative work on this glossary will be one of the key components of working together in this semester. Toward the end of the semester, we will develop interesting (and innovative) ways of presenting infrastructures with a view towards sharing ideas and critical approaches.
A Reader will be provided; should any textbooks be required for the entire seminar, this will be announced via Stud.IP. |
