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1781685878
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Verso
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Hardcover
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9781781685877
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Extrastatecraft : the Power of Infrastructure Space
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Verso Books
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9.5 in
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2014
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Hardcover
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English
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Yes
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1 in
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Political Science, Architecture, Social Science, Business & Economics
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Future Studies, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Infrastructure, General, Sociology / Social Theory
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19.4 Oz
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6.4 in
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252 Pages
EXTRASTATECRAFT: THE POWER OF INFRASTRUCTURE SPACE By Keller Easterling **NEW**
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1781685878
ISBN-13
9781781685877
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201586205
Product Key Features
Book Title
Extrastatecraft : the Power of Infrastructure Space
Number of Pages
252 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Future Studies, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Infrastructure, General, Sociology / Social Theory
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Architecture, Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-012812
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for Enduring Innocence : “A tour de force tour-guide for today.” — Domus “This is a remarkable work. Keller Easterling has written one of the most original works about the American environment I’ve ever read.” –Michael Sorkin “A truly indispensable critique of the twenty-first-century landscapes of turbo-capitalism.” –Stephen Graham, author of Cities Under Siege “A dazzling antidote to the reigning pieties about globalization, and should be read by any serious student of global places, flows and forms.” –Arjun Appadurai, author of The Future as Cultural Fact, “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
Dewey Decimal
720.103
Synopsis
Extrastatecraft controls everyday life in the city: it’s the key to power – and resistance – in the twenty-first century. Infrastructure is not only the underground pipes and cables controlling our cities. It also determines the hidden rules that structure the spaces all around us – free trade zones, smart cities, suburbs, and shopping malls. Extrastatecraft charts the emergent new powers controlling this space and shows how they extend beyond the reach of government. Keller Easterling explores areas of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our world – examining everything from standards for the thinness of credit cards to the urbanism of mobile telephony, the world’s largest shared platform, to the “free zone,” the most virulent new world city paradigm. In conclusion, she proposes some unexpected techniques for resisting power in the modern world. Extrastatecraft will change the way we think about urban spaces – and how we live in them., Infrastructure is not only underground pipes and wires that control our cities but also the hidden rules for structuring the spaces all around us – free trade zones, smart cities, suburbs and malls. Extrastatecraft charts the rise of the hidden rules that control this ‘infrastructure space’, and shows how it is creating new forms of power, beyond the reach of government. In a series of fascinating case studies, Easterling visits fields of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our world-tracking everything from standards for the thinness of credit cards, to the urbanism of mobile telephony as the world’s largest shared platform, to the rules for the free zone as the most contagious new world city paradigm. In conclusion, she proposes some unexpected techniques for resisting power in a contemporary world.
LC Classification Number
NA2765.E23 2014
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