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Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities
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Edited by:
Aaron Pinnix
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributors to this volume show, in their respective fields, how infrastructures are both generative forces and the materialized products of quotidian practices that affect and guide people's lives. Organized via shared conceptual foci, this volume demonstrates infrastructuralist perspectives as an important transdisciplinary approach within the humanities.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Axel Volmar
Axel Volmar (Dr. phil.) ist Medienwissenschaftler und arbeitet zurzeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Sonderforschungsbereich »Medien der Kooperation« an der Universität Siegen. Er erforscht die Geschichte kooperativer Praktiken, der auditiven Kultur, des Designs und medialer Zeitlichkeit.
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Contents
5 - Section I: Setting Out Some Definitions
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Introduction
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From Structure to Infrastructure: Some Glimpses on a Theoretical Movement in the Social Sciences and Humanities
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From Systems to “Infrastructuring”: Infrastructure Theory and Its Impact on Writing the History of Media
51 - Section II: Infrastructures and Communication
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Language as Infrastructure
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Conceptual Infrastructure and Conceptual Engineering
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Practices of Classification: The Hashtag as Infrastructure for Interaction
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On the Symbolic Infrastructure of Face-to-face Communication in Early Modern Society: Simple Success Media
97 - Section III: Infrastructures and Sociality
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Command and Consilium: On Infrastructures of Decision-Making in Roman Culture
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Couple Apps as Relationship Infrastructures
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Infrastructures of Democracy: Lewinian Group Dynamics and the Management of Social Change (1930s-1940s)
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Conflicting Infrastructures: Ideological vs Social Infrastructures in Transmediterranean Communications of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
141 - Section IV: Infrastructures and Religion
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Spiritual Infrastructures
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Infrastructure of Faith: Some Considerations on Correspondence in Late Antique Christianity
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Religious Infrastructure: The Parish Church
173 - Section V: Infrastructures and Genre
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Infrastructural Poetics
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Queering Infrastructures of Romance
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Counting the Impacts in the Solar Off Grid Sector
201 - Section VI: Infrastructures and the Environment
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Water for a Good Government: Andean Infrastructures in Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Chronicle (1615)
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The Dangers of Infrastructure Byproducts and What We Can Learn From Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Book of the Dead”
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Afrofuturist Infrastructure as Allegory: Picturing Sustainability in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi (2009)
235 - Section VII: Infrastructures and Colonialism
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Canals & Clans: Mediterranean Infrastructures
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Imagined Infrastructures: Eurafrica and Worldmaking in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Imperial Roads and the Fascist Culture of Total Mobilization
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Authors
269
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 23, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9783839469835
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
276
Illustrations:
8
Coloured Illustrations:
4
eBook ISBN:
9783839469835
Keywords for this book
Culture; Culture; Infrastructure; Infrastructure; Human Sciences; Human Sciences; Humanities; Humanities; Methodologies; Methodologies; Practices; Practices; Media; Media; Cultural History; Cultural History; Cultural Theory; Cultural Theory; Literary Studies; Literary Studies; Media Studies; Media Studies; Cultural Studies; Cultural Studies
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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