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Everything isInfrastructure
Shannon MatternThe New School
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the most typical
American way ofimproving the humansituation has been bymeans of crafty and
unusually compact littlepackages, either paperedor with patent numbers,or bearing the inventor's
name to a gratefulposterity.
Francois Dallegret, un-House
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The quintessential gadgetry of the pioneering
frontiersman had to be carried across trackless
country, set down in a wild place, and left totransform that hostile environment without skilledattention.
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a small self-contained unit of high performance
in relation to its size and cost, whose function is totransform some undifferentiated set ofcircumstances to a condition nearer humandesires. The minimum of skill is required in itsinstallation and use, and it is independent of anyphysical or social infrastructure beyond that by
which it may be ordered from catalogue and
delivered to its prospective user.
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Via Klaustoon: http://bit.ly/pWqaer
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Michael Chen & Justin Snider, via Urban Omnibus:http://bit.ly/r7tUeZ
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Ben Millen, iPhone Deconstruction: http://www.benmillen.com/portfolio/?p=155
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While the notion of wireless networks implies
that there are fewer wires, it could easily be arguedthat actually there are more wires. Rather than
wireless cities or wireless networks, it might bemore accurate to speak of the rewiring of cities
through the highly reconfigurable paths ofchipsets. / Billions of chipsets means trillions of
wires or conductors on a microscopic scale.
(Adrian Mackenzie, Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures(Cambridge, MA:MIT Press, 2010): 64-5).
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Halifax, Canada
This modest indentation on theCanadian coastline is a majorInternet landmark, a sort of
Ellis Island of the Web: Its
where a submarine cable ownedby Hibernia Atlantic comesashore. (Eleven major lines crossthe Atlantic, and this one landsunder the manhole, above left.)This particular bit started at aHibernia sister station inSouthport, England, andtraversed the ocean in about0.0028 second. It will then skip
along one of two fiber-opticthoroughfares: the cross-Canadapipe, which goes to Montrealand points west, or the southernroute, down the East Coast,through Boston to New York
City. Via Blum, Netscapes, Wired:http://bit.ly/8ZmQIl
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via InfraNet Lab:http://bit.ly/h36Gdy
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via leonelponce on Flickr: http://bit.ly/ndktH6
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Via born1945 on Flickr:
http://bit.ly/nmYtpZ
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via DePaul:http://bit.ly/qlRslY
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Dissected VCRviaThings Organized Neatly
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eBoy, FooBar
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Louis Kahns Phillips
Exeter Academy Classof 1945 Library;
Via Wikimedia
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Neutelings RiedijkArchitects Institute for
Sound & Vision,Hilversum, theNetherlands;
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Archigram, ca. 1970; viaV&A Museum
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/archigram-walking-city-living-pod-instant-city/http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/archigram-walking-city-living-pod-instant-city/ -
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Via Western Union Collection, National Museum of American History
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the study of the cyclically recurring elements and
motives underlying and guiding the development ofmedia culture
excavation of the ways in which these discursive
traditions and formulations have been imprinted
on specific media machines and systems in differenthistorical contexts
(Erkki Huhtamo, From Kaleidoscomaniac to Cybernerd: Notes Toward an Archaeologyof the Media. Leonardo 30:3 (1997): 221-224.)
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Via Varnelis, Ed., TheInfrastructural City, p. 123
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A city...is not a flattenablegraph. In a city, networksoverlap upon other
networks
(Friedrich Kittler, The City is a Medium,New
Literary History27:4 (1996): 719)
Brian McGrath/Skyscraper Museum,Manhattan Timeformations, 2000
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This is not our map.Its Kevin Kellys Internet Mapping Project.
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