Infrastructures
Publications in Infrastructures seek to engage with broad theories of infrastructure and foreground the usually hidden aspects of infrastructures, be they material, informational, or structural.
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The Connectivity of Things
Network Cultures since 1832
ISBN: 9780262550741
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 15, 2024
A media history of the material and infrastructural features of networking practices, a German classic translated for the first time into English.
Documenting Aftermath
Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters
ISBN: 9780262552752
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 23, 2024
An examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people's experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and 1989.
Energy at the End of the World
Energy at the End of the World
An Orkney Islands Saga
ISBN: 9780262552653
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 2, 2024
Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.
A Billion Little Pieces
RFID and Infrastructures of Identification
ISBN: 9780262551281
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
How RFID, a ubiquitous but often invisible mobile technology, identifies tens of billions of objects as they move through the world.
Waste Is Information
Infrastructure Legibility and Governance
ISBN: 9780262549967
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 5, 2023
The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects.
No Heavenly Bodies
A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262546904
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure.
The Infrastructural South
Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization
ISBN: 9780262546874
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield.
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The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education
ISBN: 9780262549264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.
The Politics of Invisibility
Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl
ISBN: 9780262548861
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible.
Machineries of Oil
An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran
ISBN: 9780262548854
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 25, 2023
The emergence of the international oil corporation as a political actor in the twentieth century, seen in BP's infrastructure and information arrangements in Iran.
The Connectivity of Things
Network Cultures since 1832
ISBN: 9780262550741
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 15, 2024
A media history of the material and infrastructural features of networking practices, a German classic translated for the first time into English.
Documenting Aftermath
Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters
ISBN: 9780262552752
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 23, 2024
An examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people's experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and 1989.
Energy at the End of the World
Energy at the End of the World
An Orkney Islands Saga
ISBN: 9780262552653
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 2, 2024
Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.
A Billion Little Pieces
RFID and Infrastructures of Identification
ISBN: 9780262551281
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
How RFID, a ubiquitous but often invisible mobile technology, identifies tens of billions of objects as they move through the world.
Waste Is Information
Infrastructure Legibility and Governance
ISBN: 9780262549967
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 5, 2023
The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects.
No Heavenly Bodies
A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262546904
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure.
The Infrastructural South
Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization
ISBN: 9780262546874
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield.
Knowledge for Sale
The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education
ISBN: 9780262549264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.
The Politics of Invisibility
Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl
ISBN: 9780262548861
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible.
Machineries of Oil
An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran
ISBN: 9780262548854
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 25, 2023
The emergence of the international oil corporation as a political actor in the twentieth century, seen in BP's infrastructure and information arrangements in Iran.