Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space. This item is unavailable.Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space

From the skyline of Dubai to the idea of 'quality', the impact of broadband cabling in West Africa to the street plan beneath your feet Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world. What can we do about it? Infrastructure is not only the underground pipes and cables controlling our cities. It also determines the hidden rules that structure the spaces all around us free trade zones, smart cities, suburbs, and shopping malls. Extrastatecraft charts the emergent new powers controlling this space and shows how they extend beyond the reach of government. How can we find our place in their new world order, and what can we do to combat it?

Keller Easterling is an award-winning writer, designer and Professor at Yale. She is the author of Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, Medium Design, Enduring Innocence and Organization Space. Her research and writing was included in the 2014 and 2018 Venice Biennales. Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist in Architecture and Design and the 2026 recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture.