Infrastructural times : temporality and the making of global urban worlds /

Materializing extensions.

Front Cover -- Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Time for a Global Infrastructure Turn -- Introduction: take your time -- Unpacking infrastructure's temporalities -- Time, infrastructure, and the urban experience -- Infrastructures as temporal -- Temporal imaginaries -- Times of maintenance and repair -- Moving infrastructure time forward: an overview of the book -- Infrastructural pasts, presents, and futures
Development times and the making of urban worlds -- Times of disruption/ disrupting times -- Your time starts now -- References -- 2 Rhythmic Infrastructure -- Three-dimensional dialectics of space-time -- Infrastructural rhythms as a temporal analytic -- Repetition: generating difference through repeating -- Cycle: temporal alignment and contradiction -- Period: grappling with continuity and discontinuity -- The possibility of rhythmic infrastructure time -- Notes -- References -- PART I Infrastructural Pasts, Presents, and Futures
3 Usable Infrastructure Pasts: Mobilizing History for Urban Technology Futures -- Introduction -- Comprehending usable pasts -- Identifying usable infrastructure pasts -- Embedded pasts -- Adapted pasts -- Parallel pasts -- Futured pasts -- Discarded pasts -- Mobilizing usable infrastructure pasts -- Re-presenting pasts -- Re-membering pasts -- Re-iterating pasts -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 4 Shifting Regimes of Historicity and the Control of Urban Futures through Infrastructures: Continuities, Ambivalences, and Tensions in the Anthropocene -- Introduction
The temporalities of modern infrastructures -- The infrastructural dimension of modernity -- The lifetimes and life cycles of infrastructures in recent history -- Infrastructures and the experience of time in everyday life -- Infrastructures and the modern regime of historicity -- The interrelated registers of temporality in the modern infrastructural compact -- Infrastructures, modern futurism, and contemporary presentism -- The rise of a presentist experience of time and the digital revolution -- Infrastructures between futurism and presentism
Infrastructure-based futuring and the rising concern about the Anthropocene -- Pluralizing times -- Reopening infrastructural futures -- How (and why) to research infrastructure-based futuring -- Study initiatives that challenge dominant forms of infrastructure development -- Study how futures are actively shaped in the present, and how they were shaped in the past -- Explore elsewheres and elsewhens beyond the networked city -- Notes -- References -- 5 Extensions as Infrastructure: The Temporalities between Subjugation and Liberation in Jayapura, West Papua -- Times of forced autonomy.

This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure and urban society. With global coverage of diverse cities and regions from Berlin to Jayapura, this book re-evaluates the temporal complexities that shape our infrastructured worlds.