Totalizing Infrastructures: Statecraft in the Uyghur Penal Colony
There were three lanes at the checkpoint in Turpan—an old Uyghur-majority oasis city on the northern reaches of the Taklamakan […]
#Failures: When things don’t hold: Anthropologies of failure, breakdown, and dysfunction
The fragility of our infrastructures and modes of living seldom become as ubiquitously palpable as they have with the current
Clouds of Failure
Anticipating the failure of digital devices has become part of the fabric of everyday life in the digital world. With
Water #Failures and Social Housing
Public and media discourses about housing estates are replete with highly problematic narratives of failure, riddled with classed and racialised
Ghosts of Infrastructures Past
Some miles outside a small Welsh town, off the main road, a long, flat structure rises from the undergrowth. Ivy
A Trajectory and the Curatorial Turn
Where did afterlives fever come from? These reflections suggest a trajectory. Today, amid a lively eruption of usages, afterlife has
Infrastructure of the Archive / Archiving Infrastructure
Infrastructure is, in common understanding, a very material thing. We think of it as something made of iron and concrete.
Architecture as/and Infrastructure
Over the past two decades, infrastructure has emerged as a central concept in a larger conversation about architecture, landscape, and
Un/boxing Fulfillment: A Field Guide to Logistical Worlds
In the classic origin tale of “The Box” and its seductions, Pandora is driven by curiosity—a distinctly feminized will to
Waiting for a Dam
Once again, in November 2019, I found myself in an SJVN waiting room. But it was a new waiting room.