Keller Easterling on the Protocollary Power of Organized Space and Urbanism
= examining global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity
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Description
"Keller Easterling is an architect and writer from New York City. Her book, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world. A previous book Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America applies network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats. A forthcoming book, Extrastatecraft, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity. Easterling has lectured and published widely in the United States and internationally. Her research and design work has been most recently exhibited at the Rotterdam Biennale, the Architectural League and Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. She has also published web installations including: Wildcards: a Game of Orgman and Highline: Plotting NYC. Easterling is an associate professor at Yale University."