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Infrastructural Performativity and Necrogeologies

Changing Climates at an Intermediate Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2023

Clara Wilch
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Abstract

Now that decades-long efforts to convince diverse publics that anthropogenic climate change is real have largely succeeded, but efforts to avoid extreme climate change have not, what comes next? By understanding the performative nature of infrastructure, communities can bring critical and creative attention to physical structures and daily practices that compose normative ecological relations and cocreate more just and livable climates.

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Systems and Structures
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TDR , Volume 67 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 85 - 90
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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