Post-grid Imaginaries: Electricity, Generators, and the Future of Energy.
This essay describes an emerging "post‐grid imaginary" that is informing visions of future collapse, growing scarcity, and deepening infrastructural fragmentation. By examining electrical grid failures in Lebanon and California, we can move beyond developmentalist assumptions about the supposedly di...
| Publicado en: | Public Culture Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 265 - 291 |
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Duke University Press
May2022
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