Write a 250 words reading response based on the following readings or videos

extrastatecraft

Repeatable formulas like spatial products and free zone world cities make most of the space in the world. Some of the most radical changes to that globalizing world are being written in the language of an almost infrastructural spatial matrix. Administered by mixtures of state and non-state players and driven by profound irrationalities, infrastructure space generates de facto, undeclared forms of polity that can outpace law, and it is the secret weapon of some of the world’s most powerful players. Even at a moment of ubiquitous computing, infrastructure space itself is an information system with the power and currency of software—a spatial operating system for shaping the city. Exposing evidence of this operating system is as important as acquiring skills to hack into it. Infrastructure space prompts the rehearsal of expanded techniques of form-making and surprising approaches to political activism.

READINGS

Required

Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft: the Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), Introduction, Zone, and Disposition, 11-93.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxeiMVMQITUANTNPenFMLVBmNGc

Recommended

Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005), 43-52. http://dss-edit.com/plu/Latour_Reassembling.pdf

James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (New Haven; Yale University Press, 1990), 136-152. http://libcom.org/files/scott_dominationandresistance.pdf

Rosalind Williams, “Cultural Origins and Environmental Impacts of Large Technical Systems,” Science in Context 6, 2(1993), 377-403. http://rosalindwilliams.com/wp-content/themes/twentyten-child/resources/culturalorigins.pdf

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