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ISBN
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1784783641
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9781784783648
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Date of Publication
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2016-08-16
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N/A
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Paperback / softback
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Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
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Artist
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Keller Easterling
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Extrastatecraft : the Power of Infrastructure Space
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Verso Books
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8.2 in
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Publication Year
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2016
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Trade Paperback
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Language
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English
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Illustrator
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Yes
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0.6 in
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Genre
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Political Science, Architecture, Social Science, Business & Economics
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Future Studies, Infrastructure, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General, Sociology / Social Theory
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8.6 Oz
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5.5 in
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Number of Pages
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256 Pages
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space by Keller Easterling Book The
About this product
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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1784783641
ISBN-13
9781784783648
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219274964
Product Key Features
Book Title
Extrastatecraft : the Power of Infrastructure Space
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Future Studies, Infrastructure, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General, Sociology / Social Theory
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Architecture, Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
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Trade
Reviews
“I have long admired Keller Easterling’s talent for extracting a space, a shape, a marking, from mixes of elements rarely brought together–whether materially or conceptually. In Extrastatecraft she does it at a grand scale, cutting across fields of meaning and of practice. A must read.” — Saskia Sassen , author of Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy “An extraordinary guidebook to the politics of infrastructure in the contemporary world, Extrastatecraft is a pivotal and beautifully written excavation of the hidden geographies of globalisation. ‘Free’ trade zones, optic fibre networks, credit cards, mobile phones, economic and financial rules … all emerge as charged elements within an often invisible geography that could not be more important. Extrastatecraft works to politicise and expose the prosaic and taken-for-granted hardware of our world.” — Stephen Graham , author of Cities Under Siege “A breathtaking journey along the material and immaterial infrastructures that continuously shape contemporary global space. Information flows of financial, legal or military nature congeal into wide arrays of strange ‘spatial products,’ extraterritorial ‘zones’ and building nodes. From within the logic of these pervasive systems, Easterling poses the most urgent political challenge facing spatial activists today, and shows how the search for justice must retool to outsmart the immanent violence of Extrastatescraft.” — Eyal Weizman (author of Hollow Land ) and Ines Weizman ” Extrastatecraft establishes Keller Easterling’s growing reputation as the savviest student of postnational spatial and infrastructural forms. Bringing together architecture, coding, digitalization and logistics, she exposes the nervous system of the new logics of domination through information and proposes a cunning counter-politics of humor, discommunication and disguise. A must read for all varieties of critical students of space and sovereignty in this emerging century.” — Arjun Appadurai , author of The Future as Cultural Fact “A provocative study of infrastructure, the operating system governing everyday life.” — Jay Owens, Icon
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
720.103
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
NA2765.E23 2016
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