Cumulative Bibliography for English 238 (F 2020):
Critical Infrastructure Studies
The following is a cumulative bibliography of readings and other materials assigned in the course. (This bibliography is part of a group library kept in Zotero and automatically pulled into the WordPress site for the course using the Zotpress plugin.)
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Anand, Nikhil. “The Banality of Infrastructure.” Social Science Research Council, 2017. https://items.ssrc.org/the-banality-of-infrastructure/. Cite
Anderson, Sheila. “What Are Research Infrastructures?” Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 7, no. 1–2 (2013): 4–23. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2013.0078. Cite
Bailey, Jefferson. “Disrespect Des Fonds: Rethinking Arrangement and Description in Born-Digital Archives.” Archive Journal, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20170919162159/http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/disrespect-des-fonds-rethinking-arrangement-and-description-in-born-digital-archives/. Cite
Bennett, Jane. “The Force of Things: Steps toward an Ecology of Matter.” Political Theory 32, no. 3 (2004): 347–72. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4148158. Cite
Bogost, Ian, and Nick Montfort. “Platform Studies: Frequently Questioned Answers.” Digital Arts and Culture, 2009. http://nickm.com/if/bogost_montfort_dac_2009.pdf. Cite
Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. “Building Information Infrastructures for Social Worlds - The Role of Classifications and Standards.” In Community Computing and Support Systems, Social Interaction in Networked Communities [the Book Is Based on the Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and Communityware, Held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 1998], 231–248. London, UK, UK: Springer-Verlag, 1998. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=646698.701381. Cite
Bratton, Benjamin H. The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty. MIT Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262029575.001.0001. Cite
Brown, Adrienne R. The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/56718. Cite
Brown, Bill. “Thing Theory.” Critical Inquiry 28, no. 1 (2001): 1–22. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1344258. Cite
Dayton, Tim. Muriel Rukeyser’s the Book of the Dead. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2015. https://www.amazon.com/Muriel-Rukeysers-Book-Dead-Dayton/dp/0826220630/. Cite
Denis, Jérôme, and David Pontille. “Material Ordering and the Care of Things.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 40, no. 3 (2014): 338–67. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243914553129. Cite
Duranti, Luciana. “Archives as a Place.” Archives and Manuscripts 24, no. 2 (1996): 244–55. https://archivo.cartagena.es/doc/Archivos_Social_Studies/Vol1_n0/07-duranti_archives.pdf. Cite
Ezban, Michael. “The Trash Heap of History.” Places Journal, 2012. https://doi.org/10.22269/120501. Cite
Fisher, Thomas. “Fracture Critical.” Places Journal, 2009. https://doi.org/10.22269/091019. Cite
Gallon, Kim. “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, 2016:42–49. Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/fa10e2e1-0c3d-4519-a958-d823aac989eb#ch04. Cite
Gitelman, Lisa. “Holding Electronic Networks By the Wrong End.” Amodern 2 (2013). http://amodern.net/article/holding-electronic-networks-by-the-wrong-end/. Cite
Hughes, Thomas P. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Cite
Jackson, Steven J. “Rethinking Repair.” In Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality and Society, 221–40. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014. Cite
James-Wilson, Symon. “Roads, Routes, And Roots: The (Im)Possible Spatial Mnemonics Of Black Infrastructure.” Society and Space, 2018. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/roads-routes-and-roots-the-im-possible-spatial-mnemonics-of-black-infrastructure. Cite
Johnson, Jessica Marie. “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.” Social Text 36, no. 4 (137) (2018): 57–79. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7145658. Cite
Kittler, Friedrich. “There Is No Software.” In Literature, Media, Information Systems, 147–55. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997. https://monoskop.org/File:Kittler_Friedrich_1992_1997_There_Is_No_Software.pdf. Cite
Latour, Bruno. “On Technical Mediation: Philosophy, Sociology, Genealogy.” Common Knowledge 3, no. 2 (1994): 29–64. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/54-TECHNIQUES-GB.pdf. Cite
Liu, Alan. “Toward a Diversity Stack: Digital Humanities and Diversity as Technical Problem.” PMLA 135, no. 1 (2020): 130–51. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.1.130. Cite
Mattern, Shannon. “Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard.” Places Journal 2015, no. March (2015). https://placesjournal.org/article/mission-control-a-history-of-the-urban-dashboard/. Cite
Miller, Johnny. “Roads to Nowhere: How Infrastructure Built on American Inequality.” The Guardian (London), 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/21/roads-nowhere-infrastructure-american-inequality. Cite
Parks, Lisa. “Earth Observation and Signal Territories: Studying U.S. Broadcast Infrastructure through Historical Network Maps, Google Earth, and Fieldwork.” Canadian Journal of Communication 38 (2013): 1–24. https://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2736. Cite
Parks, Lisa. “Stuff You Can Kick: Toward a Theory of Media Infrastructures.” In Between Humanities and the Digital, 355–73. MIT Press, 2015. http://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/Engl800/Parks-infrastructures.pdf. Cite
Rukeyser, Muriel. The Book of the Dead (Annotated Online Version). Annotated version. Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive, 1938. https://web.archive.org/web/20161005103326/http://murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org:80/writing/book-dead-annotated/. Cite
Rukeyser, Muriel, and Catherine Venable Moore. The Book of the Dead. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2018. https://wvupressonline.com/node/717. Cite
Smithies, James. “Towards a Systems Analysis of the Humanities.” In The Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern, 113–51. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2017. https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137499431. Cite
Star, Susan Leigh. “The Ethnography of Infrastructure.” American Behavioral Scientist 43, no. 3 (1999): 377–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027649921955326. Cite
Starosielski, Nicole. “Fixed Flow: Undersea Cables as Media Infrastructure.” In Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures, 53–70. The Geopolitics of Information. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt155jmd9.6. Cite
Theimer, Kate. “Archives in Context and as Context.” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 2 (2012). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-2/archives-in-context-and-as-context-by-kate-theimer/. Cite
Thorp, Jer. “All the Names: Algorithmic Design and the 9/11 Memorial.” Blog. Blprnt.Blg (blog), June 10, 2011. http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/all-the-names. Cite
Ty, Michelle. “Trash and the Ends of Infrastructure.” MSF Modern Fiction Studies 61, no. 4 (2015): 606–30. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2015.0053. Cite
Straeten, Jonas van der, and Ute Hasenöhrl. “Connecting the Empire: New Research Perspectives on Infrastructures and the Environment in the (Post)Colonial World.” NTM Zeitschrift Für Geschichte Der Wissenschaften, Technik Und Medizin 24, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 355–91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-017-0162-y. Cite
Wilson, Ara. “The Infrastructure of Intimacy.” Signs 41, no. 2 (2016): 247–80. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/682919?mobileUi=0. Cite Download
Wilson, Sacoby M., Christopher D. Heaney, John Cooper, and Omega Wilson. “Built Environment Issues in Unserved and Underserved African-American Neighborhoods in North Carolina.” Environmental Justice 1, no. 2 (2008): 63–72. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2008.0509. Cite
Zalasiewicz, Jan, Mark Williams, Colin N Waters, Anthony D Barnosky, John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Matt Edgeworth, et al. “Scale and Diversity of the Physical Technosphere: A Geological Perspective.” The Anthropocene Review 4, no. 1 (April 1, 2017): 9–22. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019616677743. Cite