Extrastatecraft

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This book is a breathtaking journey along the material and immaterial infrastructures that continuously shape contemporary global space. Information flows of financial, legal or military nature congeal into wide arrays of strange "spatial products", extraterritorial "zones" and building nodes. From within the logic of these pervasive systems, Easterling poses the most urgent political challenge facing spatial activists today, and shows how the search for justice must retool to outsmart the immanent violence of Extrastatescraft. -- Eyal and Ines Wiezman I have long admired Keller Easterling's talent for extracting a space, a shape, a marking, from mixes of elements rarely brought together -whether materially or conceptually. In Extrastatecraft she does it at a grand scale, cutting across fields of meaning and of practice. A must read. -- Saskia Sassen, author of Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy Extrastatecraft establishes Keller Easterling's growing reputation as the savviest student of postnational spatial and infrastructural forms. Bringing together architecture, coding, digitalization and logistics, she exposes the nervous system of the new logics of domination through information and proposes a cunning counter-politics of humor, discommunication and disguise. A must read for all varieties of critical students of space and sovereignty in this emerging century. -- Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University An extraordinary guidebook to the politics of infrastructure in the contemporary world, Extrastatecraft is a pivotal and beautifully written excavation of the hidden geographies of globalisation, . 'Free' trade zones, optic fibre networks, credit cards, mobile phones, economic and financial rules... all emerge as charged elements within an often invisible geography that could not be more important. Extrastatecraft works to politicise and expose the prosaic and taken-for-granted hardware of our world. -- Stephen Graham, author of Cities Under Siege A truly indispensable critique of the twenty-first-century landscapes of turbo-capitalism. (In praise of Enduring Innocence) -- Stephen Graham, author of Cities Under Siege A dazzling antidote to the reigning pieties about globalization, and should be read by any serious student of global places, flows and forms. (In praise of Enduring Innocence) -- Arjun Appadurai, author of The Future as Cultural Fact This is a remarkable work. Keller Easterling has written one of the most original works about the American environment I've ever read. (In praise of Enduring Innocence) -- Michael Sorkin A tour de force tour-guide for today. (In praise of Enduring Innocence) * Domus *