Posted October 2, 2023:
As noted in my previous post, the edited volume I have been working on, Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities, has been published! See more HERE.
Below I have included my own chapter from Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities, “The Dangers of Infrastructure Byproducts and What We Can Learn From Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘The Book of the Dead,'” in which I argue that while we often discuss infrastructure projects in relation to their intended goals, we should also consider the material byproducts produced by the operations of infrastructure and how these byproducts affect life. To do so, I draw on Rukeyser’s excellent 1938 poetry series “The Book of the Dead” to help clarify the sorts of scalar shifts needed for understanding how infrastructures’ material byproducts affect life.
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