Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities / / ed. by Aaron Pinnix, Axel Volmar, Fernando Esposito, Nora Binder

• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2023]; ©2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8
• Soggetto topico: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
• Soggetto non controllato: Cultural History; Cultural Studies; Cultural Theory; Human Sciences; Humanities; Infrastructure; Literary Studies; Media Studies; Media; Methodologies; Practices
• Persona (resp. second.): BinderNora; EspositoFernando; PinnixAaron; VolmarAxel
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Section I: Setting Out Some Definitions -- Introduction -- From Structure to Infrastructure: Some Glimpses on a Theoretical Movement in the Social Sciences and Humanities -- From Systems to “Infrastructuring”: Infrastructure Theory and Its Impact on Writing the History of Media -- Section II: Infrastructures and Communication -- Language as Infrastructure -- Conceptual Infrastructure and Conceptual Engineering -- Practices of Classification: The Hashtag as Infrastructure for Interaction -- On the Symbolic Infrastructure of Face-to-face Communication in Early Modern Society: Simple Success Media -- Section III: Infrastructures and Sociality -- Command and Consilium: On Infrastructures of Decision-Making in Roman Culture -- Couple Apps as Relationship Infrastructures -- Infrastructures of Democracy: Lewinian Group Dynamics and the Management of Social Change (1930s-1940s) -- Conflicting Infrastructures: Ideological vs Social Infrastructures in Transmediterranean Communications of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- Section IV: Infrastructures and Religion -- Spiritual Infrastructures -- Infrastructure of Faith: Some Considerations on Correspondence in Late Antique Christianity -- Religious Infrastructure: The Parish Church -- Section V: Infrastructures and Genre -- Infrastructural Poetics -- Queering Infrastructures of Romance -- Counting the Impacts in the Solar Off Grid Sector -- Section VI: Infrastructures and the Environment -- Water for a Good Government: Andean Infrastructures in Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Chronicle (1615) -- The Dangers of Infrastructure Byproducts and What We Can Learn From Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Book of the Dead” -- Afrofuturist Infrastructure as Allegory: Picturing Sustainability in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi (2009) -- Section VII: Infrastructures and Colonialism -- Canals & Clans: Mediterranean Infrastructures -- Imagined Infrastructures: Eurafrica and Worldmaking in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Imperial Roads and the Fascist Culture of Total Mobilization -- Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 "idian 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities
• ISBN: 3-8394-6983-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996556968703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno