Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures [ACLA 2025; virtual]
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Friday, October 4, 2024 - 7:56pm
American Comparative Literature Association
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Monday, October 14, 2024
Infrastructures, both visible and invisible, are all around us and they permeate our lives in various ways. Larkin defines infrastructures as “built networks that facilitate the flow of goods, people, or ideas and allow for their exchange over space” (327). Though most commonly associated with its physical manifestations, the term infrastructurealso encompasses intangible elements that play a crucial role in society. Thus, infrastructures are not merely "limited to pipes, roads, and wires" but should, instead, be understood as “interdependent networks of materials, people, and nature that enable the functioning of modern life” (Lockrem 529).