An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield. The Infrastructural South represents a major theoretical contribution to the study of infrastructure's role in the third wave of...

The Infrastructural South represents a major theoretical contribution to the study of infrastructure's role in the third wave of urbanization centered on Africa. Based on over a decade of empirical research, Silver's sweeping examination probes many of contemporary urbanism's most exciting and...

The border as vehicle -- The rise of Europe's border infrastructures -- The shape of technopolitics -- Detection, detention and design at the airport -- Surveilling landscapes and seascapes -- The portable provision of care and control -- Infrastructural investigations -- Extreme infrastructure.

The border as vehicle -- The rise of Europe's border infrastructures -- The shape of technopolitics -- Detection, detention and design at the airport -- Surveilling landscapes and seascapes -- The portable provision of care and control -- Infrastructural investigations -- Extreme infrastructure.

Properties of petroleum -- Petroleum knowledge -- Calculating technologies in crisis -- What kind of oil worker does an oil industry require to survive? -- Assembling intractability: managing nationalism, combating nationalization -- Long-distance machineries of oil -- Conclusion : petroleum...

Foreword: dead money / Bruce Sterling -- Introduction: curating transactional things / Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz -- Dongles / Scott Mainwaring -- Checks / Lisa Servon -- Tattoos Lynn gamble -- Mag stripe / Dave Stearns -- Ledgers / Taylor Nelms -- Dogecoin / Sarah Jeong -- Khipu / Gary Urton...