Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, Hannah Appel, editors The Promise of Infrastructure Raleigh: Duke University Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-4780-0018-1
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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 reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions.
liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time, politics, and promise in the contemporary moment.
While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, read the introduction: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-0018-1_601.pdf
Kyle Devine and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Audible Infrastructures: Music, Sound, Media Oxford University Press, 2021 ISBN-10 : 0190932635 ISBN-13 : 978-0190932633
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concerted archaeology of music’s media infrastructures. As contributors reveal the material-environmental realities and political- economic conditions of music and listening, they open our eyes to the hidden dimensions of how music is made, delivered, and disposed of. In rethinking our responsibilities as musicians and listeners, this book calls for nothing less than a reconsideration of how music comes to sound.
Audible Infrastructures takes readers to the sawmills, mineshafts, power grids, telecoms networks, transport systems, and junk piles that seem peripheral to musical culture and shows that they are actually pivotal to what music is, how it works, and why it matters. Organized into three parts dedicated to the main phases in the social life and death of musical commodities — resources and production, circulation and transmission, failure and waste — this book provides a
much of this book appears to be readable online at Oxford Scholarship Online here: https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190932633.001.0001/ oso-9780190932633
Joseph Heathcott, editor The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design Global Perspectives from Architectural History New York: Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9780367554910
This is an exploration of the multifaceted nature of infrastructure through the global lens of architectural history. Infrastructure holds the world together, yet even as it connects some people, it divides others, sorting access and connectivity through varied social categories such as class, race, gender, and citizenship. This collection examines themes across broad spans of time, raises questions of linkage and scale, investigates infrastructure as phenomenon and affect, and traces the interrelation of aesthetics, technology, and power. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Infrastructure-Design-Global- Perspectives-from/Heathcott/p/book/9780367554910
Contributors from South and East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, North America, Western Europe, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union, pay close attention to the materials, functions and aesthetics of infrastructure systems as they unfold within their cultural and political contexts, conceptualizing, studying, and understanding infrastructure as a worlding process.
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