Infrastructural Brutalism Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

• Main Author: Truscello, Michael (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2020
• Series: Infrastructures
• Subjects: The arts: general issues; Theory of art; Art & design styles: Surrealism & Dada; infrastructure; brutalism; necropolitics; brisantic politics; concrete; drowned town narratives; Snowpiercer; The Road; Cormac McCarthy; modernism; megastructures
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How "drowned town" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and "death train" narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures. In this book, Michael Truscello looks at the industrial infrastructure not as an invisible system of connectivity and mobi...