Become Invisible

Become More Valuable When Common

Become Part Of The Background

Become Somebody’s Problem

Become Someone Else’s Problem

Carry Civilization

Create Acceleration

Create Breadth Over Time

Create Dependence

Create Leverage

Create Momentum Across Generations

Decay

Defend The Present

Depend On Quality More Than Timing

Extend Reach

Hide In Plain Sight

Improve Without Being Noticed

Make Distance Manageable

Make Scale Possible

Need Recovery

Outlive Intentions

Punish Maintenance

Quietly Create Opportunity

Quietly Expand

Quietly Generate Wealth

Quietly Hold Civilization Together

Quietly Hold The Future

Quietly Run The World

Quietly Save Effort

Quietly Shape Everyday Life

Quietly Shape History

Reduce Asymmetry

Reduce Friction

Reward Conservation

Reward Investment

Reward Redundancy

Reward Reliability

Reward Reuse

Reward Scale

Turn Resources Into Wealth

Work Best In The Background

infrastructure

duct tape

water pressure

trivia

Water tower

America

China

progress

technological progress

pothole

construction

highway

taxes

electric vehicle

New York City

subway

New York City Subway

fall of Rome

is a way to reestablish the working class and with negative interest rates throughout the world, it's now the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything, with conservatives, plus populist, in an economic nationalist movement.

Like [Andrew] Jackson's populism, we're going to build an entirely new political movement,' he says. 'It's everything related to jobs. The conservatives are going to go crazy. I'm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it's the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Shipyards, ironworks, get them all jacked up. We're just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks. It will be as exciting as the 1930s, greater than the Reagan revolution conservatives, plus populist, in an economic nationalist movement.'

is an often unnoticed, invisible part , of our built environment which facilitates the exercise of structural power.

while it often remains unnoticed and invisible, is uniquely important in that it facilitates the exercise of structural power a method of regulation that enables

is inseparable from one's relationship to it-- to many people traversing a building, a flight of stairs is infrastructure, while to the person in a wheelchair it is an impediment.

ecological,' part of 'the balance of action, tools, and the built environment' underpinning organized social practice. Star highlights the exercise of structural power here, emphasizing that the very definition of infrastructure is inseparable from one's relationship to it-- to many people traversing a building, a flight of stairs is infrastructure, while to the person in a wheelchair it is an impediment. As with other scholars of socio-technological systems, Star defines infrastructure very broadly-- a tendency that, as we shall see, has proven highly generative in allowing researchers to draw useful connections between diverse artifacts and layers of social activity. (Connected Viewing: Selling, Streaming, & Sharing Media in the Digital Age By Jennifer Holt, Kevin Sanson 124-5)

is material public capital (i.e. Roads, railways, airports, pipelines etc.) while superstructure is immaterial public capital (i.e. Knowledge networks, communication, education, culture, etc.).

Nijkamp referred to infrastructure as material public capital (roads, railways, airports, pipelines etc.) and superstructure meaning immaterial public capital (knowledge networks, communication, education, culture, etc.)

During the session on capitalism Braudel swiftly dealt with the question of ideology. 'When you say that capitalism is a superstructure,' Paul Fabra, the editor of Le Monde asked, 'are you using the word superstructure in a Marxist sense'' Braudel's response was that 'structure', which could be both superstructure and infrastructure, corresponded with the social, economic, and the cultural reality, as part of the 'longue duree' of which religion, for example, was a phenomenon. 'You are not using the word superstructure,' Immanuel Wallerstein added, 'in the Marxist sense. For Marx, infrastructure controlled the superstructure, while for you, in a sense, the superstructure is the dominant element. Braudel concluded the exchange by saying that for him the phenomenon of structures was one which remained invariant over time. It had nothing to do with the structuralism of Levi-Strauss or some of the French sociologist and philosophers.

is much more important than architecture.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

is the material forms that allow for exchange over space.

the material forms that allow for exchange over space' and the institutions 'that facilitate the flow of goods in a wider cultural as well as physical sense'

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