Transforming capitals 2007 download full article pdf reprinted as. Some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the. Dubai kanu agrawal, melanie domino, brad walters eds. Extrastatecraft available for download and read online in other formats. 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. 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. She is the author of organization space mit, 1999 and enduring innocence mit, 2005, which was named archinects best book of 2005. 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. Extrastatecraft by keller easterling, 9781784783648, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. With an experimental narrative structure, the book, moves between exposing evidence of infrastructure space and.
Nader voussoughian in conversation with keller easterling, bidoun, no. The power of infrastructure space verso, 2014, examines global infrastructure as a medium of polity. The power of infrastructure space andrej grubacic and denis ohearn, living at the edges of capitalism. 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. The power of infrastructure space keller easterling delivers a hard hitting analysis of extrastatecraft, the infrastructural of our late capitalist world. Through examining infrastructural space both physical and ephemeral, she connects nexuses of cables and pipes with credit cards and hyper shopping, charting out. Even at a moment of ubiquitous computing, extrastatecraft. The power of infrastructure space, which explores areas of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our. We are both interested in information systems that condition contemporary life. The power of infrastructure space keller easterling download bok. Extrastatecraftthepowerofinfrastructurespace download.
It is often hard for interdisciplinary scholars to persuade more canonical international relations ir academics to purchase volumes on architecture or urbanism. Keller easterling is an awardwinning writer, architect and professor at the yale school of architecture. It also determines the hidden rules that structure the spaces all around us free trade zones, smart cities, suburbs, and shopping malls. It is an example of extrastatecraft, as easterling terms it, within a mongrel form of exception beyond the laws of the nationstate. Extrastatecraft will change how we think about citiesaand, perhaps, how we live in them. Keller easterling is an architect and writer from new york city and a professor at yale university. The power of infrastructure space excerpt keller easterling. Lujiazui finance and trade zone, pudong district, shanghai, china. Keller easterling is an architect, writer and professor at yale university. Download pdf extrastatecraft the power of infrastructure. Research on the free zone was assembled for the 2007. Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our everyday lives, making the. Keller easterling reveals the nexus of emerging governmental and corporate forces buried within the concrete and fiberoptics of our modern habitat. Adventures in exile and mutual aid charles maier, once within borders.
Research on the free zone was assembled for the 2007 architecture biennale in. 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. The power of infrastructure space verso, 2014, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity. 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 describes the free zone as a fenced enclave for warehousing. Extrastatecraft establishes keller easterling s growing reputation as the savviest student of postnational spatial and infrastructural forms. Apr 08, 2015 architecturbanistwriter keller easterling will address the theme of her book, extrastatecraft verso, 2014. Extrastatecraft establishes keller easterlings growing reputation as the savviest student of postnational spatial and infrastructural forms.
Keller easterling explores areas of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our world. With an experimental narrative structure, the book, moves between exposing. Keller easterling describes the free zone as a fenced enclave for ware. The power of infrastructure space is a fascinating meditation on contemporary global infrastructure. 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.
Easterling is a 2019 united states artist in architecture and design. 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 worlds largest shared platform, to the free zone, the. Compared to many geographic studies of infrastructure, this work is distinctly broader in scale. Easterling is also the author of two essaylength books. The following is an excerpt from keller easterlings latest publication, extrastatecraft. 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 articles, books, exhibitions, media, news, talks, contact, dubai, extrastatecraft. Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our everyday lives, making the city the key site of power and.
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. Architecturbanistwriter keller easterling will address the theme of her book, extrastatecraft verso, 2014. 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. Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world. Rather than thinking of infrastructure as being comprised of the arterial stuff of the city.
Keller easterling author keller easterling is an architect, writer and professor at yale. 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. The power of infrastructure space 2016, verso, london uk currency of new habits in infrastructure space. It also determines the hidden rules that structure the spaces all around us free trade zones, smart cities, suburbs, and shopping. Nov 30, 2014 the following is an excerpt from keller easterlings latest publication, 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. Free ports have handled global trade for centuries, but the midtwentiethcentury development of the export processing zone, or epz, as a more formalized. Jan 31, 2012 keller easterling is an architect and writer from new york city and a professor at yale university. Keller easterling extrastatecraft lecture in the framework of the opening of the exhibition spuren spuren.
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Nov 04, 2014 extrastatecraft controls everyday life in the city. Medium design by keller easterling overdrive rakuten. The phenomenal rise of the free zone, an opportunistic urban hybrid that has. Pdf extrastatecraft download full pdf book download. Contemporary infrastructure space is the secret weapons of the most powerful people in the world precisely because it orchestrates activities that.
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