β Scribed by Kregg Hetherington (ed.)
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Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzlesβsites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters, underground rivers made by leaky pipes, and architecture gone weedy to neighborhoods partially submerged by rising tides, the contributors explore situations that destabilize the concepts we once relied on to address environmental challenges. They take up the challenge that the Anthropocene poses both to life on the planet and to our social-scientific understanding of it by showing how past conceptions of environment and progress have become unmoored and what this means for how we imagine the future.
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction. Keywords of the Anthropocene......Page 10
Part I: Reckoning with Ground......Page 24
One. The Underground as Infrastructure? Water, Figure/Ground Reversals, and Dissolution in Sardinal......Page 26
Two. Clandestine Infrastructures: Illicit Connectivities in the US-Mexico Borderlands......Page 54
Three. The Metropolis: The Infrastructure of the Anthropocene......Page 75
Part II: Lively Infrastructures......Page 104
Four. Dirty Landscapes: How Weediness Indexes State Disinvestment and Global Disconnection......Page 106
Five. From Edenic Apocalypse to Gardens against Eden: Plants and People in and after the Anthropocene......Page 124
Six. Leaking Lines......Page 158
Part III: Histories of Progress......Page 178
Seven. Low Tide: Submerged Humanism in a Colombian Port......Page 180
Eight. Oystertecture: Infrastructure, Profanation, and the Sacred Figure of the Human......Page 202
Nine. Here Comes the Sun? Experimenting with Cambodian Energy Infrastructures......Page 225
Ten. The Crisis in Crisis......Page 245
References......Page 270
Contributors......Page 302
A......Page 306
C......Page 307
E......Page 308
I......Page 309
M......Page 310
P......Page 311
S......Page 312
Z......Page 313
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