{"product_id":"9780262539043","title":"Infrastructural Brutalism","description":"Author: Truscello, Michael\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780262539043\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE US\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 17 Nov 2020\u003cbr\u003ePages: 376 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow \"drowned town\" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and \"death train\" narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures.BR\u0026gt;BR\u0026gt;b\u0026gt;How \"drowned town\" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and \"death train\" narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures.\/b\u0026gt;p\u0026gt;In this book, Michael Truscello looks at the industrial infrastructure not as an invisible system of connectivity and mobility that keeps capitalism humming in the background but as a manufactured miasma of despair, toxicity, and death. Truscello terms this \"infrastructural brutalism\"-a formulation that not only alludes to the historical nexus of infrastructure and the concrete aesthetic of Brutalist architecture but also describes the ecological, political, and psychological brutality of industrial infrastructures. \/p\u0026gt;p\u0026gt;Truscello explores the necropolitics of infrastructure-how infrastructure determines who may live and who must die-through the lens of artistic media. He examines the white settler nostalgia of \"drowned town\" fiction written after the Tennessee Valley Authority flooded rural areas for hydroelectric projects; argues that the road movie represents a struggle with liberal governmentality; considers the ruins of oil capitalism, as seen in photographic landscapes of postindustrial waste; and offers an account of \"death train narratives\" ranging from the history of the Holocaust to postapocalyptic fiction. Finally, he calls for \"brisantic politics,\" a culture of unmaking that is capable of slowing the advance of capitalist suicide. \"Brisance\" refers to the shattering effect of an explosive, but Truscello uses the term to signal a variety of practices for defeating infrastructural power. Brisantic politics, he warns, would require a reorientation of radical politics toward infrastructure, sabotage, and cascading destruction in an interconnected world.\/p\u0026gt;","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47953488576670,"sku":"ING-9780262539043","price":88.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780262539043.jpg?v=1783559585","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780262539043","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}