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Deb Chachra: How Infrastructure Works (Hardcover, 2023, Penguin Publishing Group)

A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, …

Infra as agency: labour saving, more time+mobility. Transpo allow people to come together. Telco allows to be physically distant but socially close. “embodied energy”: unseen energy (negative externality) it takes to bring a product to you (reminds me of Michel Bauwens: we use 2-3x the energy to move a thing as it takes to make a thing). Electricity is the currency of the modern world. It is unevenly distributed.