Keller Easterling’s Extrastatecraft

Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, by Keller Easterling. London and New York: Verso, 2014. 252 pages.

KELLER EASTERLING’S Extrastatecraft is the latest installment in her vitally important ongoing analysis of the rapidly changing physical and political landscapes of twenty-first-century capitalism. Over the past decade and a half, the prolific Easterling has undertaken substantive studies of this subject through a rapid-fire set of essays, lectures, and books. Earlier volumes—such as Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades (2005)—mined a

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D. Fox Harrell’s Phantasmal Media

THE MYSTERIOUS GRAY AREA between cognitive science and computer science has long held broad allure, seducing thinkers at least since the time of Norbert Wiener and the theorization of cybernetics at midcentury. In the ensuing decades, what began as the technical field of artificial intelligence has increasingly captured the imagination of an emerging generation of prolific scholar-artists who are mining AI for new forms of expression and reception. Working primarily in institutional contexts characterized by descriptors such as new, integrated, and digital media, they are pursuing intensive