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Theorizing the Contemporary

The Infrastructure Toolbox

By Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta

September 24, 2015

Why an infrastructure toolbox? Infrastructure has long been a central conceptual tool—a productive metaphor—for critical theory and the analysis of social life ... More

Theorizing the Contemporary

Introduction: The Infrastructure Toolbox

By Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta

September 24, 2015

Why an infrastructure toolbox? Infrastructure has long been a central conceptual tool—a productive metaphor—for critical theory and the analysis of social life ... More

Theorizing the Contemporary

Accretion

By Nikhil Anand

September 24, 2015

Infrastructures accrete. They gather and crumble incrementally and slowly, over time, through labor that is at once ideological and material. Infrastructures ar... More