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Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this week, please prioritize the Susan Leigh Star article and chapters 1 and 2 of the Bakke book. The introduction and afterword of the Bakke book are also great if you can get to them. (I\u2019ve included the whole book.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Susan Leigh Star, \u201cThe Ethnography of Infrastructure\u201d<\/a>, American Behavioral Scientist<\/em>, 1999<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Gretchen Bakke, The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future<\/a><\/em>, Introduction, chapters 1 & 2, and Afterword<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 (Optional.) Lisa Parks, \u201c\u2018Stuff You Can Kick\u2019: Toward a Theory of Media Infrastructures\u201d<\/a>, Between Humanities and the Digital<\/em>, edited by Svensson and Goldberg, MIT Press, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The syllabus also lists Abdoumaliq Simone\u2019s \u201cPeople as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg\u201d<\/a> for this week, but I think this will fit better if instead we read it during week 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class artifacts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, February 15: Reading discussion. Presentation slides<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In class we watched \u201cPrinciples of Electricity\u201d (1945) from the General Electric Film Catalog, linked here<\/a>. At one point I also referenced Ingrid Burrington\u2019s Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure<\/em> (2016), which I consider to be an excellent primer on learning to \u201csee\u201d infrastructure in public space. Email me at malmgree@newschool.edu if you\u2019d like a PDF of the book!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, February 17: Technical tutorial; links to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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