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Present Futures : = Speculative Infrastructure at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Present Futures :/
其他題名:	Speculative Infrastructure at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
作者:	Schmidt, Nathan.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (257 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-06, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-06B.
標題:	American literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30242729click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798363515378

Present Futures : = Speculative Infrastructure at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
Schmidt, Nathan.

Present Futures :Speculative Infrastructure at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. - 1 online resource (257 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-06, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

"Present Futures" articulates the concept of speculative infrastructure to examine matters of present-day environmental concern through the lens of past futurisms. At the turn of the twentieth century, writers and inventors alike embraced the centennial spirit of the day by developing ambitious visions for the future, many of which centered on a new understanding of the relationship between humans and our environment. While these kinds of projects carried a number of names in their own day, like "public works" or "civil engineering", the term "infrastructure" allows us to understand them as ways of embedding matters of human concern into the very fiber of the planet. In many cases, these infrastructures were more speculative than utilitarian, more concerned with imaginative potential than with practicability. This dissertation considers how the infrastructural imaginary of the early twentieth century became a way to reckon with the emerging concept of planetarity. Rather than successfully subjugating the Earth to human control, these infrastructures-real and imagined-introduced the inhuman scales of the planetary into human consciousness, which paved the way for a new mode of environmentally-inflected thinking. Nikola Tesla's "World System" of wireless electricity, John Muir's conception of the National Parks, and Percival Lowell's spurious Martian canals were all planet-spanning infrastructures that, together with their literary antecedents and counterparts, brought the budding consciousness of the planetary into the public imagination, raising the specter of the Anthropocene.This project brings scientific developments and their technological counterparts in conversation with more traditionally literary sources to demonstrate how imagined infrastructures become sites for humanistic engagement with matters of planetary scale. At the same time, drawing from archival, literary, and theoretical sources, this interdisciplinary project seeks new ways of thinking about the past's relevance to matters of pressing present concern. This dissertation demonstrates the materiality of the political by showing how, through infrastructure, we are living in the futurisms of the past. The critique of infrastructure makes it possible to recast the Anthropocene as a problem of planetary thinking, encompassing both the technoscientific and the socio-cultural realms.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798363515378Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.
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