Parks - Stuff You Can Kick

Tags: problems and methods, books https://www.academia.edu/16426095/Stuff_You_Can_Kick_Toward_a_Theory_of_Media_Infrastructures

Infrastructure as a medium for understanding things

• explores “media infrastrucutres”

  • actual signals, which cables are private, etc

  • what is the stuff you can see, what is the stuff you can kick?

    “integrated ciruits” or as part of the biotechnical or technosocial formations

    • what does this even mean

  • asks us to think about what infrastructure is made of and how they arrived

• distinguishes between mail sorters, power poles, and satellite dishes
• similar: https://www.leilastegemoeller.com/blog/2018/12/10/towards-a-phenomenology-of-infrastructure