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Semester II 
ON REVOLUTION

Session 09
20.03.2019
Location: Lochergut, Zurich, CH

Easterling, Keller
2014
Extrastatecraft:
The Power of Infrastructure
London, United Kingdom, Verso

Text Synopsis
“Contemporary infrastructure space is the secret weapon of the most powerful people in the world, precisely because it orchestrates activities that can remain unstated but are nevertheless consequential”.
Keller Easterling offers us an unprecedented point of view on the spatial agents and the key-power of the 21st century.
Some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the language of law and diplomacy, but in these spatial, infrastructural technologies— often because market promotions or prevailing political ideologies lubricate their movement through the world.”
The “active form” emerges as a new figure in the realm of spatial agency and establishes a new scale of thinking about the relationship between design and politics.
About the Author
Keller Easterling is an American architect, urbanist, writer, and professor at Yale University.
She is a contemporary writer working on the issues of urbanism, architecture, and organization in relation to the phenomena commonly defined as globalization.
Easterling
KellerEasterling
2014
Extrastatecraft
Power
Infrastructure
ThePowerofInfrastructure
London
UnitedKingdom
Verso
Law
Diplomacy
Technologies
Politicalideologies
Ideologies
Activeform
Design
Politics
American
Architect
Urbanist
Writer
Professor
YaleUniversity