Infrastructures Flashcards
What is Bruno Latour’s political fiction book “Down to Earth” about?
The “geo-classes” who are subjected to the consequences of environmental change in the future, despite themselves not causing the crisis
The wealthy leave earth
Consider applicability to urban change and environmental justice
How could Williams’ critique of landscapes be applied to urban atmospheres?
“There is no such thing as a landscape… landscape implies separation and observation” (Williams 1973
- Although atmospheres are embodied, they are all about observation; not the activities at play
What is a good example of infrastructure as a science?
Schoneberg 1960
Water pipe map of Berlin
- infrastructure as a thing
- Needs to be technocratically mapped and controlled
Who has written an extensive and illuminating historiography of urban metabolism?
Wachsmuth et al 2012
Who has discussed “military urbanism” with infrastructure essentially weaponised?
Graham 2010 “military urbanism”
How can infrastructure be viewed?
1) A thing
2) a system (links to UPE and Erik Swyngedouw 1997)
3) An idea (modernisation)
4) In representations
How is infrastructure as an idea understood?
The use of infrastructure for modernisation in cities
Who has considered the landscape itself as an assemblage of infrastructures in the city?
Gandy 2011 - infrastructures can be considered to be landscapes and landscapes can have an infrastructural function
Who has linked ecology to infrastructure?
Belanger 2016 “Infrastructural ecologies”
- Good links to zoonotic urbanisation
How did Raymond Williams discuss the affective qualities of cities in late modernity?
“the great city was now, in many MINDS, so overwhelming”, comprised “as ‘masses’”
What is curious about Ash Amin’s article “animated space” (2015)?
How we differentially experience infrastructural atmospheres individually and collectively / also created + Destroyed… (Amin 2015)
Sort of “you can’t see me if I can’t see you” paradox
