Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space

Easterling, Keller

ISBN 10: 1784783641 / ISBN 13: 9781784783648

Editore: Verso, 2016

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• Titolo: Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
• Editore: Verso
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1784783641
• ISBN 13: 9781784783648
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Keller Easterling is an award-winning writer, architect and Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. She is the author of Organization Space and Enduring Innocence, which was named Archinect’s Best Book of 2005. Easterling is also the author of two essaylength books: an ebook, The Action Is the Form: Victor Hugo’s TED Talk and a forthcoming book Subtraction. Her writing and design work will be included in the 2014 Venice Biennale. Easterling lectures widely in the US and abroad and contributes to, among others, Domus, Artforum, Grey Room, E-Flux, Cabinet and Volume.