Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai the
subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life free-trade zones the standardized
dimensions of credit cards and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more.
Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our everyday lives making
the city the key site of power and resistance in the twenty-first century. Keller Easterling
reveals the nexus of emerging governmental and corporate forces buried within the concrete and
fiber-optics of our modern habitat. Extrastatecraftwill change how we think about cities—and
perhaps how we live in them.
