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...Sven Opitz; Ute Tellmann This article analyzes how infrastructures take part in constituting Europe as a material collectivity. To that end, it modifies Bruno Latour’s sociology of associations in two respects: In order to theorize the relation between connectivity and collectivity, we consider...

...Winona LaDuke; Deborah Cowen Infrastructure has long been central to the destruction of Indigenous life and the making of settler colonial futurity. Infrastructure constitutes the body of the Wiindigo—the beast of Anishinaabe legend. Roads and rails, pipelines and dams, prisons and borders have all...

...Kylie Benton-Connell; D. T. Cochrane Indigenous-led movements have shifted oil transport infrastructure from the margins to the center of political contestation throughout North America. These campaigns include confrontation with pipeline financiers. We argue that there are both strategic...

...Jordan B. Kinder The ongoing history of setter colonialism is inextricable from the infrastructures of energy and extraction that provide its material foundation. Addressing this inextricable relationship, this article explores how Indigenous solarities in Canada resist extractivism and generate...

... not start on October 18, 2019, nor does it end with the plebiscite on September 4, 2022; rather, it exists in the affective infrastructures over which collective questions and practices are raised for the reproduction and multiplication of life. [email protected] [email protected]...

...Carlotta Benvegnù; Niccolò Cuppini; Mattia Frapporti; Floriano Milesi; Maurilio Pirone; (Into the Black Box) Platforms are transforming society, economy, and politics and becoming essential infrastructures of our lives. In this way, digital spaces overlap with other spatialities, urban areas...

... . 2017 . Platform Capitalism . New York : John Wiley and Sons . A G A I N S T the D A Y Kevin Lin and Pun Ngai Mobilizing Truck Drivers in China: New Migrant Struggle and the Emergence of Infrastructural Capitalism W e can t take it anymore. We have no choice but to stand together! We...

... the extractivist foundation of Internet materiality as the primary and most effective antifascist tactic. Far from being a recent emergence of authoritarian infrastructure, however, the Internet was developed by the US military‐industrial complex and has always carried the imprint of authoritarian utility...

...Eben Kirksey Indigenous people from West Papua, a territory under Indonesian rule, are foraging for food in spaces by the side of the road, in the ruins of recently logged forests. Living on the margins of market economies and transportation infrastructures comes with opportunities as well as risks...

... of particular regimes of motion. The article tells three stories of crises in motion: supply chain disruption during COVID-19, blockades of colonial circulatory infrastructures, and the disastrous ecologies of extractivism, emphasizing their deep entanglements. This article traces how these crises of lifeworlds...

...Sheena Wilson This article takes the E. L. Smith Solar Farm, a proposed municipal solar energy infrastructure project in Edmonton, Alberta, as a case study of solar imaginaries as they intertwine with material and social realities. Set for installation at the E. L. Smith Water Treatment Plant site...

...Gökçe Günel Discussions of energy in sub-Saharan Africa tend to focus on leapfrogging, theorizing how some non-Western countries might be able to avoid carbon-intensive fuels, such as coal and oil, and directly start using renewable energy infrastructure, mainly solar. While theories...

...Rhys Williams This article will introduce New Food and the process of precision fer mentation. It will then do three things: First, it will analyze the narratives and images New Food mobilizes, how they are embodied in its technologies and infrastructures, and how they intersect with dominant...

... not as one entity but as an organizing process located in more than one area within the City of London. They see Occupy London as both a powerful idea and as a material practice. The authors reflect on the social composition, organizational politics, and infrastructure of Occupy London. They conclude...

...Ned Rossiter Logistical media coordinate and control the movement of labor, people, and things situated along and within global supply chains. The combination of software and infrastructure holds a determining force in the production of subjectivity and the capacity for action. Algorithmic...

... at carbon emissions today. Their work might push us toward undoing the massive infrastructures of the grid to think about other ways of living together in a time of tipping points, transitions, and catastrophic effects. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 climate change mitigation grid The Working...

... on Greenpeace photographs of a Te Whānau-ā-Apanui fishing boat crossing a seismic survey ship contracted to Petrobras in the Raukūmara Basin, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Hawaiian artist Joy Enomoto's Nautilus the Protector woodcut prints, in which a nautilus battles mining infrastructure in the Bismarck Sea...

...Brian Holmes This text explores the consequences of the massive flow of Canadian heavy crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands to the Chicago metropolitan area. The boom in North American oil extraction has literally strained petroleum infrastructure to its bursting point. How do urban populations...

... are not merely technological infrastructure; they transform social and spatial relations by altering land use, property relations, and patterns of work and consumption. The social history of pipelines is a paradoxical tale of the dispossession of local communities and their often coercive integration into wider...

... the border territory, small humanitarian relief groups conduct stopgap efforts to mitigate the loss of life in the remote borderlands wilderness. Yet after a decade of emergency relief work with the most provisional of infrastructure, the border crisis increasingly leans toward the indefinite production...