09.01.2019
Dramatising the facts — ‘Brexit: The Uncivil War,’ Infrastructural Politics and Imaginaries
Brexit is a useful lens through which to look at infrastructure for a number of reasons. The intersection of national identity, movement of people and the structural forces this unleashes — in which the actual structural role the EU plays is now somewhat incidental to the discussion. Not to mention the splitting of political institutions into hither to un-figured groups, and the swirling morass of how the resources and power are distributed and felt across the country, there is also the way in which the Brexit campaign created and utilised what I would call an infrastructural form of politics. […]
Infra Cultures
*Thoughts in formation* Here, I'm exploring the cultural patterns, imaginaries and practices of infrastructures; what can be called infrastructural cultures, and which might be posed as infrastructure as culture. Part of a wider research into the problems and possibilities for critical, civic and cultural intervention into broader infrastructural contexts, design, policy and 'publics'. Initiated as part of my AHRC CHASE-funded PhD research at Goldsmiths, University of London: "Changing what infrastructure means" (2024).