Infrastructural Unrest

‘Infrastructural Unrest’ characterizes a growing nexus of knowledge, awareness, participative and activist practices that indicate how people are waking up from the contemporary logistical nightmare infrastructure global logistics. It is wake-up newly resonates with theories by provoking systems-level, decentralised field awareness action, revealing interconnections ecologies “invisible” systems, ways life, work people. The wilful, unwitting projected invisibility infrastructures, which modes technological progressivism (e.g. “ambient computing”) attempt to disappear, prove available rifts interruptions in smooth operations infrastructural globalism. specific infrastructures (made) invisible, whom for what purposes, remains an ever more important consideration Technosphere, during Anthropocene, under conditions planetarity. 2020 Canadian pipeline railway protests, Wet’suwet’en blockades, series blockades across Canada solidarity indigenous land defenders, example ‘infrastructural unrest’. Actions like this hopeful examples growing, situated scaled un-invisible impactable, as sites where localized effects defects colonial logics extractive capital can be traced, diagnosed, subverted halted.