Extrastatecraft

Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more. Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our everyday lives, making the city the key site of power and resistance in the twenty-first century.Keller Easterling reveals the nexus of emerging governmental and corporate forces buried within the concrete and fiber-optics of our modern habitat. Extrastatecraftwill change how we think about cities-and, perhaps, how we live in them.

About the author

Keller Easterling is an award-winning writer, architect and Professor at Yale. She is the author of Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space; Enduring Innocence, which was named Archinect's Best Book of 2005; and Organization Space. She is also the author of two essay length books: The Action is the Form and Subtraction. Her writing and design work was included in the 2014 and 2018 Venice Biennales. Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow in Architecture and Design and the recipient of the 2019 Blueprint Award for Critical Thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Keller Easterling, Easterling Keller
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781784783648
• ISBN: 978-1-78478-364-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, Urban & municipal planning, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Theory of architecture