Infrastructural Brutalism
Download or Read eBook Infrastructural Brutalism PDF written by Michael Truscello and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Michael Truscello |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2020-09-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780262358729 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0262358727 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Infrastructural Brutalism by : Michael Truscello
Book excerpt: How "drowned town" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and "death train" narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures. 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.
