Anthropology 4400E Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Phatic Expression, 3 Women
7 Feb 2018
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Stop you from doing what you are trying to. Begins by giving general intro to infrastructures. Then goes onto topic of ontology of infrastructure. Looks at de nitions and nature of it. For larkin, infrastructure objects which create grounds on which other objects operate. He looks at two studies of water supplies and how they demonstrate the operation of technology. She compared it to water shutdown in capetown. Then moves to unbearable modernity of infrastructure. The concept of infrastructure has its roots in the enlightenment period. E. g. of how albania roads were built but driving cars was banned. The doubling of infrastructure and the aesthetics of address. E. g. how the wall trump wants to build is not needed but just to show his power. When a pipe is not a pipe . The title of this piece takes its name from the writing of culture , poetics and politics of infrastructure. Ghana was rst country to achieve independence in africa.
