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
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.
Lifelines of Our Society
A Global History of Infrastructure
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
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
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.
Data Paradoxes
The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare
ISBN: 9780262545419
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 18, 2023
Why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing.
Digital Oil
Machineries of Knowing
ISBN: 9780262544672
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 8, 2022
How is digitalization of the offshore oil industry fundamentally changing how we understand work and ways of knowing?

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.
Lifelines of Our Society
A Global History of Infrastructure
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
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
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.
Data Paradoxes
The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare
ISBN: 9780262545419
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 18, 2023
Why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing.
Digital Oil
Machineries of Knowing
ISBN: 9780262544672
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 8, 2022
How is digitalization of the offshore oil industry fundamentally changing how we understand work and ways of knowing?