Infrastructural brutalism art and the necropolitics of infrastructure / Michael Truscello.
| Author/creator | Truscello, Michael |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] |
| Description | ix, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile STEAM Monographs D2O |
| Subjects |
| Series | Infrastructures series |
| Contents | Introduction : The paver of modern life -- Drowned town fiction : the poetics of large dams -- The materiality of the road in the "road movie" -- Oil and photography -- Death train narratives -- Conclusion : Infrastructural brutalism and brisantic politics. |
| Abstract | "Infrastructural Brutalism explores the necropolitics of infrastructure through the lens of artistic media: "drowned town" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and "death train" narratives. How does American "drowned town" literature, from Mud on the Stars to Sugaree Rising, contribute to the social erasure of Indigeneity? How does road movie scholarship ignore the materiality of the road in favor of modes of travel? How is agency depicted in the energy landscape photography of oil pipelines and coal-powered reactors? How do the novels and films about death trains, from the historical trains of African colonization and the Holocaust to fictional trains such as Snowpiercer and Train to Busan, connect infrastructure with necropower? While most examples are from North American literature, film, and photography, the book also discusses media from around the world in terms of the necropolitical valences of infrastructure. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-359) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019041455 |
| ISBN | 9780262539043 (paperback) |
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