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Cultural anthropology

the idea that infrastructures carry aesthetic and affective meanings, promising modernity, beyond their technical function.

In cultural anthropology, poetics of infrastructure refers to the idea that infrastructures carry aesthetic and affective meanings, promising modernity, beyond their technical function. This meaning comes from Larkin (2013) in Annual Review of Anthropology.[1]

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  1. Larkin, B. (2013). The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure. Annual Review of Anthropology, 42(1), 327-343. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155522

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