Infrastrukturen

Why reflect on infrastructures? Today, we are experiencing a breathtaking expansion and intensification of infrastructural interconnections around the globe. At the same time, infrastructures have also become the explicit subject of research studies in the social sciences and humanities. Accordingly...

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Format: eBook
Language:German
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2019
Series:Dialektik des Globalen. Kernbegriffe
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Summary:Why reflect on infrastructures? Today, we are experiencing a breathtaking expansion and intensification of infrastructural interconnections around the globe. At the same time, infrastructures have also become the explicit subject of research studies in the social sciences and humanities. Accordingly, the thesis of this essay is that infrastructures are the instruments and media of Verräumlichung (spatialization).
Physical Description:1 online resource (28 p.)
ISBN:9783110641356
9783110641660
9783110645620
Access:Open Access