Infrastructure of the Archive / Archiving Infrastructure #Roadsides
Infrastructure is, in common understanding, a very material thing. We think of it as something made of iron and concrete. Even when going unnoticed in our everyday lives,…
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Architecture as/and Infrastructure #Roadsides
Over the past two decades, infrastructure has emerged as a central concept in a larger conversation about architecture, landscape, and urbanism. Providing citizens with reliable infrastructure systems…
Un/boxing Fulfillment: A Field Guide to Logistical Worlds
Source Painting by John William Waterhouse, 1896, (Public Domain) In the classic origin tale of “The Box” and its seductions, Pandora is driven by curiosity—a distinctly feminized will…
Waiting for a Dam #Roadsides
Once again, in November 2019, I found myself in an SJVN waiting room. But it was a new waiting room. Many things had changed in the two years…
Runways to the Sky #Roadsides
Road building in the Maldives – an archipelago of small coralline islands – sounds a bit like a euphemism for a ridiculous task. Maldivian roads present uniquely closed…
The Space-Time of Infrastructure #Roadsides
“Lena, you can turn on the camera now.” The view of the space station changes from monitor to film image. The opening scene of Andrei Ujică’s film Out…
When the Silk Road Vanished #Roadsides
“I still need to cross Attabad before I reach home” – so our Shimshali travel companion commented matter-of-factly. We had just spent ten days walking along the Pakistan–Afghanistan…
Welcome to #Roadsides
The side of a road is a good place for ethnography, we think. One of us owns a field next to a country road. It is a twenty-minute…