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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Waste Is Information

Infrastructure Legibility and Governance

by Dietmar Offenhuber

Foreword by Carlo Ratti

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

by Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren

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

by Jonathan Silver

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

by Lawrence Busch

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

by Olga Kuchinskaya

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.

Lifelines of Our Society

A Global History of Infrastructure

by Dirk van Laak

Foreword by Paul N. Edwards

Translated by Erik Butler

ISBN: 9780262546386

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 1, 2023

A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.

Machineries of Oil

An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran

by Katayoun Shafiee

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.

Knowledge Machines

Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities

by Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder

ISBN: 9780262547857

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 9, 2023

An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to literary analysis.