The power of infrastructure space verso, 2014, examines global infrastructure as a medium of polity. Keller easterling describes the free zone as a fenced enclave for ware. Even at a moment of ubiquitous computing, extrastatecraft. Extrastatecraft controls everyday life in the city. Rather than thinking of infrastructure as being comprised of the arterial stuff of the city. Keller easterling dubai, 2005 extrastatecraft contemporary infrastructure space is the secret weapon of the most powerful people in the world precisely because it orchestrates activities that can remain unstated but are nevertheless consequential. Extrastatecraftthepowerofinfrastructurespace download. The power of infrastructure space excerpt keller easterling. Easterling is also the author of two essaylength books. Today urban space has become a mobile, monetized technology, and some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the language of law and diplomacy, but rather in the spatial information of infrastructure, architecture and urbanism. In this lecture keller easterling drew on her new book extrastatecraft to chart the emergent new powers controlling this space and showed how they extend beyond the reach of government.
Some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the. Jan 31, 2012 keller easterling is an architect and writer from new york city and a professor at yale university. Adventures in exile and mutual aid charles maier, once within borders. Nov 04, 2014 extrastatecraft controls everyday life in the city. Extrastatecraft will change how we think about citiesaand, perhaps, how we live in them. Extrastatecraft will change how we think about citiesand, perhaps, how we act and live in them.
The power of infrastructure space keller easterling download bok. The power of infrastructure space verso, 2014, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity. She is the author of organization space mit, 1999 and enduring innocence mit, 2005, which was named archinects best book of 2005. Keller easterling author keller easterling is an architect, writer and professor at yale. The power of infrastructure space keller easterling delivers a hard hitting analysis of extrastatecraft, the infrastructural of our late capitalist world. Pdf extrastatecraft download full pdf book download. It is fairer and clearer to say her book analyzes infrastructure, defined as easterling defines it and not as we ordinarily understand its meaning, as a set of hidden rules that structure the. Apr 08, 2015 architecturbanistwriter keller easterling will address the theme of her book, extrastatecraft verso, 2014. Global architecture and its political masquerades mit, 2005 researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world.
With an experimental narrative structure, the book, moves between exposing evidence of infrastructure space and. The spatial softwares of extrastatecraft places journal. Given the merger of cars and elevators in warehouses, ports and other logistics environments, the research argues that the common floor, which provides navigational instructions for these automated vehicles, is the new germ of architectural design. Infrastructure is not only the underground pipes and cables controlling our cities. Today urban space has become a mobile, monetized technology, and some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the language of law and diplomacy, but rather in the spatial information of infrastructure, architecture and. Medium design by keller easterling overdrive rakuten. It is an example of extrastatecraft, as easterling terms it, within a mongrel form of exception beyond the laws of the nationstate.
Download pdf extrastatecraft the power of infrastructure. The power of infrastructure space andrej grubacic and denis ohearn, living at the edges of capitalism. Keller easterling infrastructure is not only the 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. Keller easterling explores areas of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our world. 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 worlds largest shared platform, to the free zone, the most virulent new world city paradigm.
With an experimental narrative structure, the book, moves between exposing. 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 worlds largest shared platform, to the free zone, the. Keller easterling reveals the nexus of emerging governmental and corporate forces buried within the concrete and fiberoptics of our modern habitat. Easterling is a 2019 united states artist in architecture and design. Keller easterling describes the free zone as a fenced enclave for warehousing. Given the merger of cars and elevators in warehouses, ports and other logistics environments, the research argues that the common floor, which provides navigational instructions for these automated vehicles, is the new germ of. Research on the free zone was assembled for the 2007. The phenomenal rise of the free zone, an opportunistic urban hybrid that has. Keller easterling is an architect and writer from new york city and a professor at yale university. Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our everyday lives, making the. A conversation with keller easterling failed architecture. Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our everyday lives, making the city the key site of power and. Contemporary infrastructure space is the secret weapons of the most powerful people in the world precisely because it orchestrates activities that.
Architecturbanistwriter keller easterling will address the theme of her book, extrastatecraft verso, 2014. Request pdf on may 1, 2015, michele acuto and others published extrastatecraft. The power of infrastructure space 2016, verso, london uk currency of new habits in infrastructure space. The power of infrastructure space verso, 2014 analyzes infrastructure as the determinant of a set of hidden rules that structure the spaces all around us. By keller easterling find, read and cite all the research you need on. It also determines the hidden rules that structure the spaces all around us free trade zones, smart cities, suburbs, and shopping. Extrastatecraft available for download and read online in other formats. Contemporary infrastructure space is the secret weapons of the most powerful people in the world precisely because it orchestrates activities that can remain unstated but are nevertheless consequential. Extrastatecraft establishes keller easterling s growing reputation as the savviest student of postnational spatial and infrastructural forms. Nov 30, 2014 the following is an excerpt from keller easterlings latest publication, extrastatecraft. Bringing together architecture, coding, digitalization and logistics, she exposes the nervous system of the new logics of domination through information and proposes a cunning counterpolitics of humor. Aa bookshop, 2pm term 1 week 5 monday 28 october saturday 2 november 20. Through examining infrastructural space both physical and ephemeral, she connects nexuses of cables and pipes with credit cards and hyper shopping, charting out. Transforming capitals 2007 download full article pdf reprinted as.
Extrastatecraft by keller easterling, 9781784783648, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Dubai kanu agrawal, melanie domino, brad walters eds. Lujiazui finance and trade zone, pudong district, shanghai, china. Extrastatecraftthepowerofinfrastructurespace free download ebook in pdf and epub. 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. Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world. Extrastatecraft is a study of infrastructure space, which easterling, a professor of architecture at yale, defines as the rules governing the space of everyday life mostly mundane, repeatable spaces such as car parks and hotels, cash machines, suburbs, business parks, satellite communications and electronic devices. Keller easterling articles, books, exhibitions, media, news, talks, contact, dubai, extrastatecraft. English abstract repeatable formulas like spatial products and free zone cities make most of the space in the world, and some of the worlds most radical changes are being written in the language of this. The following is an excerpt from keller easterlings latest publication, extrastatecraft.
We are both interested in information systems that condition contemporary life. It is often hard for interdisciplinary scholars to persuade more canonical international relations ir academics to purchase volumes on architecture or urbanism. 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. Bringing together architecture, coding, digitalization and logistics, she exposes the nervous system of the new logics of domination through information and proposes a cunning counterpolitics of.
Keller easterling is an architect, writer and professor at yale university. It also determines the hidden rules that structure the spaces all around us free trade zones, smart cities, suburbs, and shopping malls. The power of infrastructure space, which explores areas of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our. Keller easterling is an awardwinning writer, architect and professor at the yale school of architecture. Through examining infrastructural space both physical and ephemeral, she connects nexuses of cables and pipes with credit cards and hyper shopping, charting out the invisible rules that control everyday life. Compared to many geographic studies of infrastructure, this work is distinctly broader in scale. The power of infrastructure space is a fascinating meditation on contemporary global infrastructure.
Research on the free zone was assembled for the 2007 architecture biennale in. Extrastatecraft establishes keller easterlings growing reputation as the savviest student of postnational spatial and infrastructural forms. Free ports have handled global trade for centuries, but the midtwentiethcentury development of the export processing zone, or epz, as a more formalized. Nader voussoughian in conversation with keller easterling, bidoun, no. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Keller easterling extrastatecraft lecture in the framework of the opening of the exhibition spuren spuren.
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