Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the
skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban
life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and
hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more.
Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our
everyday lives, making the city the key site of power and resistance in
the twenty-first century.
Keller Easterling reveals the nexus of emerging governmental and
corporate forces buried within the concrete and fiber-optics of our
modern habitat. Extrastatecraft will change how we think about
cities--and, perhaps, how we live in them.