Infrastructure is often viewed as a material substrate that fulfills needs. Pipescirculate water. Transportation systems traffic people. Heating, ventilation, andair-conditioning systems maintain habitable environments. Organizational infrastructuresmake order out of otherwise unintelligible information. And yet,as scholars of infrastructure have long observed, infrastructure promises muchmore than basic care. It relays meaning. It sustains attachments. It forms thebasis for imaginative worlds. In other words, the demand for infrastructure extendsbeyond need-it encompasses desire. The desire for capitalism and resistance,for extraction and inclusion, for sovereignty and occupation, among amultitude of other objects and forces.
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