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The Promise of Infrastructure /

From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also revea...

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Autres auteurs: Appel, Hannah, 1978- (Éditeur intellectuel), Gupta, Akhil, 1959- (Éditeur intellectuel), Anand, Nikhil, 1975- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Infrastructural time / Hannah Appel
  • The future in ruins : thoughts on the temporality of infrastructure / Akhil Gupta
  • Infrastructures in and out of time : the promise of roads in contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey
  • The current never stops : intimacies of energy infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel
  • Infrastructure, apartheid technopolitics, and temporalities of "transition" / Antina von Schnitzler
  • A public matter : water, hydraulics, biopolitics / Nikhil Anand
  • Promising forms : the political aesthetics of infrastructure / Brian Larkin
  • Sustainable knowledge infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker
  • Infrastructure, potential energy, revolution / Dominic Boyer.