Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents 5
3. Section I: Setting Out Some Definitions
4. Introduction 11
5. From Structure to Infrastructure: Some Glimpses on a Theoretical Movement in the Social Sciences and Humanities 31
6. From Systems to “Infrastructuring”: Infrastructure Theory and Its Impact on Writing the History of Media 51
7. Section II: Infrastructures and Communication
8. Language as Infrastructure 67
9. Conceptual Infrastructure and Conceptual Engineering 75
10. Practices of Classification: The Hashtag as Infrastructure for Interaction 87
11. On the Symbolic Infrastructure of Face-to-face Communication in Early Modern Society: Simple Success Media 97
12. Section III: Infrastructures and Sociality
13. Command and Consilium: On Infrastructures of Decision-Making in Roman Culture 107
14. Couple Apps as Relationship Infrastructures 117
15. Infrastructures of Democracy: Lewinian Group Dynamics and the Management of Social Change (1930s-1940s) 125
16. Conflicting Infrastructures: Ideological vs Social Infrastructures in Transmediterranean Communications of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 141
17. Section IV: Infrastructures and Religion
18. Spiritual Infrastructures 155
19. Infrastructure of Faith: Some Considerations on Correspondence in Late Antique Christianity 163
20. Religious Infrastructure: The Parish Church 173
21. Section V: Infrastructures and Genre
22. Infrastructural Poetics 183
23. Queering Infrastructures of Romance 191
24. Counting the Impacts in the Solar Off Grid Sector 201
25. Section VI: Infrastructures and the Environment
26. Water for a Good Government: Andean Infrastructures in Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Chronicle (1615) 211
27. The Dangers of Infrastructure Byproducts and What We Can Learn From Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Book of the Dead” 227
28. Afrofuturist Infrastructure as Allegory: Picturing Sustainability in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi (2009) 235
29. Section VII: Infrastructures and Colonialism
30. Canals & Clans: Mediterranean Infrastructures 243
31. Imagined Infrastructures: Eurafrica and Worldmaking in the Mid-Twentieth Century 251
32. Imperial Roads and the Fascist Culture of Total Mobilization 259
33. Authors 269