A brand new must read

Short piece; easy to read. How a humble French term re-created Modernity as we know it:

“Infrastructure” as a keyword for an upcoming volume on Infrastructure.

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http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/01/18/book-review-roads-an-anthropology-of-infrastructure-and-expertise-by-penny-harvey-and-hannah-knox/

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indeed or to the degree that they do make some minor fixes they borrow against future taxpayers income, similar in some way to the short-termism we see in businesses that are not investing in training or research b/c they are too caught up in day to day profits.
than there is: http://www.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F06%2F26%2Fbusiness%2Fdealbook%2Fwhen-you-dial-911-and-wall-street-answers.html

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That is spot-on stuff, especially the lines about how government officials find it easier to go cheap when it comes to capital expenditures like infrastructure than cut on spending (which is where constituencies are bought and sold, of course), and the reason is that cuts to expenditures generally have an immediate and obvious impact on the public while infrastructural pains are typically not felt for years, presumably long after some of these politicians are no longer politicians, enjoying their retirement …

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Installing (Social) Order wrote:

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