Rotten Infrastructure

“How do we invent bad criteria for rotten infrastructure, the sliding of norms to the always incomplete and the already broken? The hack, the stupid fix, the patch—these are songs sung out of holes and faults and leaks. We are only now discovering that the limits to our endurance are actually far more constitutive than our daydream fantasies of a wholeness based in currency that already functions perfectly well as toilet paper. This is past the Romantic tradition of inspired cataclysmic becoming and inside of its ruin only because it’s just not how things work out for most people who can’t afford to imagine themselves into concrete circumstances that will ever align with basic needs.”

Here is a reading list from the (Dis) Assembling #stacktivism event held today in London.

One response to “Rotten Infrastructure

  1. “We are only now discovering that the limits to our endurance are actually far more constitutive than our daydream fantasies of a wholeness”
    that could be our new motto hereabouts

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