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Nonhuman Life as Infrastructure via @maanbarua in @SocietyandSpace
"Infrastructures are rapidly expanding to include nonhuman life, heralding a new age of animals as infrastructure."
societyandspace.org/articles/nonhu…
"Infrastructures are rapidly expanding to include nonhuman life, heralding a new age of animals as infrastructure."
societyandspace.org/articles/nonhu…
@maanbarua @SocietyandSpace "From ecosystem engineering to the mitigation of risk, from cyborg assistants to partners in economic assembly, the casting of nonhuman life as infrastructure affirms, but also troubles, what constitutes infrastructure. In this intervention, I map some of the modalities of
@maanbarua @SocietyandSpace refiguring nonhuman life as infrastructure and discuss the biopolitical and bioeconomic implications of this turn. I argue that the infrastructural status of nonhumans derives from their living potentials and capacities. It derives, in other words, from their very status of
