Koantig reviewed How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra
Politics? In my engineering?! Yes, please!
5 stars
"Universal provision via collective systems is how we provide agency and autonomy to everyone, and limiting the freedoms of those around you is unethical and unsustainable, not least because it's almost always enforced through violence."
Such a great and inspiring book! Come for the technical aspect of infrastructure and its hidden worlds of interconnected networks, and stay for the politics and the aspirational social project that the very idea of a collective infrastructure represents and embodies!