Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space

Extrastatecraft controls everyday life in the city: it's the key to power - and resistance - in the twenty-first century.<br><br> Infrastructure is not only the underground pipes and cables controlling our cities. It also determines the hidden rules that structure the spaces all around us - free trade zones, smart cities, suburbs, and shopping malls. <i>Extrastatecraft </i>charts the emergent new powers controlling this space and shows how they extend beyond the reach of government.<br><br> Keller Easterling explores areas of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our world - examining everything from standards for the thinness of credit cards to the urbanism of mobile telephony, the world's largest shared platform, to the &quot;free zone,&quot; the most virulent new world city paradigm. In conclusion, she proposes some unexpected techniques for resisting power in the modern world.<br><br> <i>Extrastatecraft </i>will change the way we think about urban spaces - and how we live in them.