So infrastructure, Chachra reminds us, is a form of mutual aid. It's a gift we give to ourselves, to each other, and to the people who come after us. Any rugged individualism is but a thin raft, floating on an ocean of mutual obligation, mutual aid, care and maintenance.
by @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/17/care-work/#charismatic-megaprojects
“Engineering professor and materials scientist Deb Chachra's new book How Infrastructure Works is a hopeful, lyrical—even beautiful—hymn to the systems of mutual aid we embed in our material world, from sewers to roads to the power grid. It's a book that will make you see the world in a different way—forever[.]”
Engineering professor and materials scientist @debcha's new book How Infrastructure Works is a hopeful, lyrical - even beautiful - hymn to the systems of mutual aid we embed in our material world, from sewers to roads to the power grid. It's a book that will make you see the world in a different way - forever:
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